"What is right to be done cannot..." - Quote by Jane Austen
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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“Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.”
“I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.”
“Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?”
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“For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.”
“No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.”
“Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.”
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“Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.”
“No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.”
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.”