Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
JANE AUSTENAh! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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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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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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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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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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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.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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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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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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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 should infinitely prefer a book.
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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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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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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