In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
JANE AUSTENKnow your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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I must have my share in the conversation.
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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Almost anything is possible with time.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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The less said the better.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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