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Thoughtful Quotes — page 144 of 303
“Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.”
“I utter what you would not dare think”
“Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.”
“We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.”
“Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.”
“Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.”
“A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.”
“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.”
“A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.”
“To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.”
“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”
“She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.”
“There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”
“Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.”
“And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.”
“There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”
“I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”
“I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.”