Jane Austen Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Kindness Quotes

There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

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I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

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I was quiet but I was not blind.

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

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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

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You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

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At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

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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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If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

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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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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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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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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

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