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Quotes About Adversity

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.
~ Jane Austen
It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.
~ Jane Austen
We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
~ Jane Austen
There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.
~ Jane Austen
Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.
~ Jane Austen
Neither the dissipations of the past--and she had lived very much in the world, nor the restrictions of the present; neither sickness nor sorrow seemed to have closed her heart or ruined her spirits.
~ Jane Austen
It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.
~ Jane Austen
I have observed...in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
~ Jane Austen
There will be nothing singular in his case; and it is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.
~ Jane Austen
Nothing can be changed by changing the face,but everything can be changed by facing the change!!Just think about it.  
~ Jane Austen
She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.
~ Jane Austen
Elizabeth was excessively disappointed...but it was her business to be satisfied — and certainly her temper to be happy; and all was soon right again.
~ Jane Austen
My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me
~ Jane Austen
His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.
~ Jane Austen
But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not dwell long on her spirits; and having told all her griefs to Charlotte Lucas, whom she had not seen for a week, she was soon able to make a voluntary transition to the oddities of her cousin, and to point him out to her particular notice. The first two dances, however, brought a return of distress; they were dances of mortification. Mr. Collins, awkward
~ Jane Austen
It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
~ Jane Austen
Resignation to inevitable evils is the evil duty of us all; the
~ Jane Austen
She regained the street--happy in this, that though much had been forced on her against her will, though she had in fact heard the whole substance of Jane Fairfax's letter, she had been able to escape the letter itself.
~ Jane Austen
Elinor, az ac? çekenler diledikleri kadar gururlu ve özgür olabilirler -hakarete kar?? koyabilir,kötülüÄŸü iade edebilirler- ama ben yapamam. Ben hissetmeliyim -sefil olmal?y?m- isteyen buyursun bunu nas?l ta??d???m?n keyfini ç?kars?n.
~ Jane Austen
Yes, I know exactly what you will say: Friday, went to the Lower Rooms; wore my sprigged muslin robe with blue trimmings - plain black shoes - appeared to much advantage; but was strangely harassed by a queer, half-witted man, who would make me dance with him, and distressed me by his nonsense
~ Jane Austen
it is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as
~ Jane Austen
no estoy hecha a pasar sinsabores.
~ Jane Austen
The first experimental convinction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.
~ Jane Austen
Åžiirin aÅŸk? yok etme yeteneÄŸini ilk kim keÅŸfetti merak ediyorum doÄŸrusu.' -'Åžiiri hep aÅŸk?n g?das? olarak düÅŸünürdüm.' dedi Darcy. -'SaÄŸl?kl?, güçlü, iyi bir aÅŸk için doÄŸru olabilir. Zaten güçlü olan her ÅŸeye her ÅŸey iyi gelir. Ama eÄŸer, zay?f, c?l?z bir eÄŸilimse tatl? bir sone açl?ktan öldürür onu.
~ Jane Austen