What are men to rocks and mountains?
JANE AUSTENEvery moment had its pleasure and its hope.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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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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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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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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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
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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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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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