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Doe Quotes by Jane Austen
- A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
- I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
- Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
- Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little…
- It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the…
- The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we…
- Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
- It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than…
- A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever…
- It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that…
- The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does…
- We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and…
- My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
- I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of…
- but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon…
- I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call…
- If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth
- 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…
- And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or…
More Doe Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi