Jane Austen Quotes

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Jane Austen

• Solitude
• Aim
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• My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

  

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• We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

  

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• Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

  

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• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

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• If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

  

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• If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

  

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• Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

  

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• You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

  

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• Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

  

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• Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

  

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• Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

  

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• Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

  

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• What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

  

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• The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

  

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• Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

  

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• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  

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• A bird makes the same use of wings and tail in the air as a swimmer does of his arms and legs in the water.

  

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• I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed by wisdom, and sanctified by the solemn choice of the people who are to live under it. May the Supreme ruler of the world be pleased to establish and perpetuate these new foundations of liberty and glory....Thank God, my country is saved and by the smile of Heaven I am a free and independant man.

  

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• I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.

  

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• Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Solitude
  • Aim
  • Excessive