"The stream is as good as at first;……" — Jane Austen
"The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away."
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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 Collects Quotes
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Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ.…
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects…
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The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it…
— William Buckland
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Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that…
— Leon Foucault
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Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
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What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.
— Friedrich Schiller
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I recently read that Arnold Schwarzenegger collects Hummers. Now we know why Maria's face is frozen in that puckered position.
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Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap…
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My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects…
— Bill Engvall
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I guess you could say there are two Slashes. There's the crazy, rock-and-roll Slash, he's wild. And then there's the…
— Slash
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I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any…
— Ray Bradbury
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