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Augusta Jane Evans, or Augusta Evans Wilson (May 8, 1835 – May 9, 1909), was an American author of Southern literature. She was the first woman to earn US$100,000 through her writing.

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Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

Form, Insanity, Poetry, Poetry Is, Purest

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Fill, Freeze, Heart, Icy, Shadow

Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.

Money, People, Soul, Souls

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

Earth, Memories, Memory, Men, Retribution, Sins

Oh! what a luxury it is to weep,
And find in tears a sad relief!

Luxury, Relief, Sad, Tears, Weep

If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

Female, Influences, Men, Self, Stronger, Vice

All things are dark to sorrow.

All Things, Dark, Sorrow, Things

Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

Duty, Icy, Shadow

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Doe, Lifetime, Old, Suffering, Sun, Years

It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

Among, Blood, Flow, Millions, Mournful, Veins

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