Jane Austen - Hope Quotes

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I give you joy of our new nephew, and hope if he ever comes to be hanged it will not be till we are too old to care about it.

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Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

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Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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But a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

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But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

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It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice

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I wish I could finish stories as fast as you can. I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, and think you have done for her very well; but the good-for-nothing father, who was the real author of all her faults and sufferings, should not escape unpunished. I hope he hung himself, or took the surname of Bone or underwent some direful penance or other.

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Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.

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It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

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The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.

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With them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound...

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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

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All the privilege I claim for my own sex…is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

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A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

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She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that 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.

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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

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