Jane Austen Quotes
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There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.
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There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.
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I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
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Sense will always have attractions for me.
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I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
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It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
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She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.
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The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart...
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I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
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I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.
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His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.
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Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.
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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
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If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.
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When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.
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Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.
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You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
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She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.
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There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.