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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Stichwörter: self-knowledge self-trust guidance

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine...

Jane Austen

Stichwörter: heroine

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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

Jane Austen

Stichwörter: nature pleasure poets seasons walking fall autumn

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I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

Jane Austen

Stichwörter: love loss

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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen

Stichwörter: love

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I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

Jane Austen

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for I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value is our estimation.

Jane Austen