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“Christianity is not a religion. Religion is humans trying to work their way to God through good works. Christianity is God coming to men and women through Jesus Christ.”
― Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter

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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: humor, love, romantic, women

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#4

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom

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“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: prejudice, pride, vanity

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#6

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#7

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: happiness

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#8

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: mr-bennet

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#9

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet, past, pleasure, remembrance

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#10

“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#11

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#12

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#13

“I am excessively diverted.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet

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#14

“Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet

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#15

“We do not suffer by accident.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: accident, suffering

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#16

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: classics

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#17

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

tags: color, god, purple, religion

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#18

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

tags: time

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#19

“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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#20

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

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#21

“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Shelley

tags: beginning, fresh-start, start-over, today

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#22

“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
― Mary Shelley

tags: classics, education

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#23

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: humor, laughter

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“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: christmas

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“No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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#26

“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: growth, heart, life, suffering

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“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: crying, heartfelt, shame, sorrow, tears

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“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: cowardice, morality, pip

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#30

“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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