Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
JANE AUSTENGood apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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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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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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Time will explain.
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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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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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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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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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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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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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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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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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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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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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