Jane Austen Quotes, Time Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

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And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

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How can you contrive to write so even?

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

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It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

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I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

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Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

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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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Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

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The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

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Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

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Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

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Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

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