"It is very often nothing but our own……" — Jane Austen
"It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us."
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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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For love deceives the best of woman kind.
— Homer
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That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on…
— Hugh Nibley
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Color deceives continuously.
— Josef Albers
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Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or…
— Paul of the Cross
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not
— Gorgias
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
— Plato
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
— Plato
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one…
— John Edward
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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of…
— Alma Gluck
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