Jane Austen on character
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Jane AustenJane Austen The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
Jane AustenJane Austen There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane AustenJane Austen Success supposes endeavour.
Jane AustenJane Austen She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
Jane AustenJane Austen You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
Jane AustenJane Austen I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
Jane AustenJane Austen I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
Jane AustenJane Austen How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
Jane AustenJane Austen But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
Jane AustenJane Austen When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
Jane AustenJane Austen What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane AustenJane Austen It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane AustenJane Austen 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 AustenJane Austen Let us have the luxury of silence.
Jane AustenJane Austen A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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