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Human Quotes by Jane Austen
- 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…
- 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…
- How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
- There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more…
- It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most…
- she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change…
- I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites…
- There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails,…
- Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears…
- Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world…
- Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that…
- 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…
- The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
- ...but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power...
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell