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#1

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
― Jane Austen

tags: friendship

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#2

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

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#3

“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle

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#4

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#5

“Note: — One can do a great deal with appropriate smiles. I must study the subject carefully. The friendly smile — the scornful smile — the detached smile — the entreating smile — the common or garden grin.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Complete Emily Starr Trilogy: Emily of New Moon / Emily Climbs . Emily's Quest

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#6

“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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#7

“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: life

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#8

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life, regrets

18610 likes

#9

“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: books

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#10

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

69683 likes

#11

“Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.”
― Thomas S. Monson

tags: inspirational

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#12

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

22815 likes

#13

“Forget yourself and get to work.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

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#14

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

23057 likes

#15

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51608 likes

#16

“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

20653 likes

#17

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower

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#18

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: romantic

5549 likes

#19

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

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#20

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: men, mountains, rocks

5052 likes

#21

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
― Jane Austen

2193 likes

#22

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

2659 likes

#23

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

1716 likes

#24

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
― Jane Austen

1010 likes

#25

“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: foolishness, intelligence, sense, stupidity

760 likes

#26

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

1155 likes

#27

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: life, music

650 likes

#28

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

377 likes

#29

“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: self-control, serenity

553 likes

#30

“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: happiness

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