Inspirational Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image “Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Intelligence Mary Sensible Stupid
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“I wish you could persuade Mary not to be always fancying herself ill.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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“They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were.” — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
“They were all looking at Mary, and she felt more than ever like the new pupil at a school where they had high expectations of her. She also felt a strange flattery: the idea of herself as swift and darting and birdlike was new and pleasant, because she had always thought of herself as dogged and plodding. But along with… — Philip Pullman Copy Share
“What say you, Mary? for you are a young lady of deep reflection I know, and read great books, and make extracts." Mary wished… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The next day, Mary walked through the rubble of their destroyed house. They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
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“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
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It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image