Jane Austen Quotes, Grateful Quotes, Meditation Quotes

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

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My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

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I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

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You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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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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Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

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I can always live by my pen.

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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I have no talent for certainty.

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it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

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An annuity is a very serious business.

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She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

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One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.

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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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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

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There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

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You have delighted us long enough.

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