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Holly
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by Jane Austen
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Reading for the 3rd time
Holly said:
"
Love the book. Love the movie(s). Mr. Knightley ranks as one of the top three best Austen-heroes (whose position on that list is always changing depending on which book I'm reading at the time). Emma doesn't deserve him, except that she becomes less
...more
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“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
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“If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)”
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“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― Lyrical Ballads
― Lyrical Ballads
“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...”
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Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...”
―
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