"Every young lady may feel for my heroine……" — Jane Austen
"Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation."
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691 Quotes by Jane Austen
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being…
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect…
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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More Agitation Quotes
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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The…
— Alfred Adler
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up…
— Lord Byron
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social…
— John Dewey
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Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and…
— Dalai Lama
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Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let…
— Dalai Lama
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this…
— Edward Hoagland
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To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a…
— Judith Orloff
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I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between…
— Thomas Jefferson
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America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment;…
— Calvin Coolidge
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It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens…
— Benjamin Tucker
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Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that,…
— Danielle LaPorte
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