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“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

Men Has Beens Book Stories Hands Literature Inspiring Higher Prove Degrees Advantage Pens Persuasion Inconstancy Anne Elliot

Author:Jane Austen

“If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Remember Sides Risk Duty Safety Aids Indifferent Persuasion Marrying Anne Elliot

Book:Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.”

Enjoy Enjoyed Misfortunes Anne Elliot

Author:Jane Austen

“When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”

Helping Serious Bears Reflection Ill Evening Preacher Examination Eloquent Amused Moralist Anne Elliot

Book:Persuasion In Modern English

Source: Persuasion In Modern English

“I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.”

“she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.”

Feelings Strong Ought Taste Enjoyed Misfortunes Strong Feeling Anne Elliot

Author:Jane Austen

“Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.”

Moments Letters Persuasion Agitation Overpowering Anne Elliot

Book:Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“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.”

Mind Said Sometimes Felt Depends Tongue Sincerity Careless Hasty Anne Elliot Presence Of Mind

Book:Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)”

Has Beens Enough Body Might Sides Half Attraction Captains Persuasion Might Have Been Anne Elliot

Author:Jane Austen

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.”

Men Forget Dare Persuasion His Love Anne Elliot

Book:Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion

Source: Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion

“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”

Feelings Home Quiet Prey Confined Anne Elliot

Author:Jane Austen

“Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

May Has Beens Weak Unjust Persuasion Resentful Anne Elliot

Book:Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

“I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”