"He then departed, to make himself still more……" — Jane Austen
"He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain."
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691 Quotes by Jane Austen
Jane Austen has 691 quotes on this site.
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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 Departed Quotes
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry.…
— Tertullian
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I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to…
— Joan of Arc
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The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it,…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
— Thomas Browne
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But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my…
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
— Jean Paul
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When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a…
— Wilford Woodruff
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The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.
— Sophocles
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