"Time did not compose her." — Jane Austen
"Time did not compose her."
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Jane Austen
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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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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
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It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
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We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in…
— John le Carre
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to…
— Sam Abell
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I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance,…
— Tori Amos
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Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without…
— June Jordan
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the…
— Edward Abbey
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The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must…
— Louis Pasteur
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I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire…
— Martin Seligman
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals…
— Charles Lyell
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