Jane Austen Quotes, Heart Quotes, Acceptance Quotes

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

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Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.

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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

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And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

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If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

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There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

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You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

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Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

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I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

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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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He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

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You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

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