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- I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
- Edward Chapin
- When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
- Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
- When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.
- Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
- No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
- Meg Cabot, (Jenny Carroll), Sanctuary, 2002
- One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
- You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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