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Life Quotes by Jane Austen
- Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
- They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her…
- The sooner every party breaks up the better.
- 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…
- Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of…
- My heart is, and always will be, yours.
- What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?
- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for…
- it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all…
- Angry people are not always wise.
- I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
- 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…
- 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…
- I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all…
- The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object…
- You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first…
- Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
- Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and…
- It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that…
- Without music, life would be a blank to me.
- Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
- Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle