The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
JANE AUSTENEvery moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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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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Time will explain.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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