She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
JANE AUSTENFriendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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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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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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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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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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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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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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