...I will not allow books to prove any thing."
"But how shall we prove any thing?"
"We never shall.
Jane Austen
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A.E. HOUSMAN From this day to the ending of the world,
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Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
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I shall now call.
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...
SRI CHINMOY I shall never marry, Atticus."
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"I might have children.
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L. FRANK BAUM Hard Wind
Sister with iron hooves
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J.R. WARD my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but
I shall go on living.
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BIBLE I will do such things,--
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love for the beauty of the soul.
I shall love you always.
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WILLIAM PENN Some day we will try
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JOHN ASHBERY We are not.
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So shall a glory wreat...
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Till we are called to rise;
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The King of carven stone,
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"Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan."
"...
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Th...
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JANE AUSTEN The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
BIBLE I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindnes...
STEPHEN GRELLET I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindnes...
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THOMAS A. BENNETT We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
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'Ride,' Pleasure said;
'Walk,' Joy replied.
W.H. DAVIES You shall be my roots and
I will be your shade,
though the sun burns my leaves.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI there is [...]
a last even of last times of saying
if you do not love me I shall not be lo...
SAMUEL BECKETT And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father,
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CARTER HEYWARD Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful...
GEORGE ORWELL We can and will convict you right now, but that's not the
right thing to do,
JACKIE SPAULDING I will love you with too many commas,
but never any asterisks.
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JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
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JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p...
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JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f...
JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
JANE AUSTEN I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
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JANE AUSTEN There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...
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JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
JANE AUSTEN From politics it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
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JANE AUSTEN One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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JANE AUSTEN One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
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JANE AUSTEN An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
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JANE AUSTEN Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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It is something to think of
JANE AUSTEN My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
JANE AUSTEN Till this moment I never knew myself.
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JANE AUSTEN I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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JANE AUSTEN Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.
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JANE AUSTEN I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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JANE AUSTEN There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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JANE AUSTEN Beware how you give your heart.
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JANE AUSTEN Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect...
JANE AUSTEN You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...
JANE AUSTEN Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...
JANE AUSTEN Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...
JANE AUSTEN The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...
JANE AUSTEN We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
JANE AUSTEN It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these...
JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
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JANE AUSTEN General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
JANE AUSTEN Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums...
JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
JANE AUSTEN I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
JANE AUSTEN My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ...
JANE AUSTEN One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it
JANE AUSTEN But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ...
JANE AUSTEN Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu...
JANE AUSTEN It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno...
JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
JANE AUSTEN It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in...
JANE AUSTEN My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m...
JANE AUSTEN Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
JANE AUSTEN They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ...
JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ...
JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ...
JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted.
JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn...
JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already.
JANE AUSTEN