"We live at home, quiet, confined, and our……" — Jane Austen
"We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us."
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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 Confined Quotes
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars,…
— Joseph Addison
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If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
— Joe Biden
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make…
— H. Rap Brown
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
— Thomas Carlyle
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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his…
— Chanakya
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Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.
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How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not…
— Hsu Yun
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not…
— Unknown Author
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The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is…
— Jacques Ellul
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Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated…
— Hugh Mackay
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