What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
JANE AUSTENThere 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.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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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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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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It’s such a happiness when good people get together.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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I can always live by my pen.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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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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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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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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