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Mind Quotes by Jane Austen
- A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
- There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of…
- Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
- Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the…
- With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
- Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face…
- How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
- 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…
- Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint…
- To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality…
- 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…
- But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a…
- Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.
- I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.
- She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a…
- Oh!†said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say…
- And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
- Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
- Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given…
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- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- I've known you long enough to know you try not to let your feelings show. Lately when I hold you near, I… — Superman
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
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