Jane Austen Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Examination Quotes

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

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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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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

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Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

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“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

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I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

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My heart is, and always will be, yours.

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You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

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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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... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

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If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

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