To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
JANE AUSTENI must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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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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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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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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Time will explain.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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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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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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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.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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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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