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The symptoms were favourable. - Instead of answering, Harriet turned away confused, and stood thoughtfully by the fire; and though the letter was still in her hand, it was now mechanically twisted about without regard. Emma waited the result with impatience, but not without strong hopes. At last, with some hesitation, Harriet said -
`Miss Woodhouse, as you will not give me your opinion, I must do as well as I can by myself; and I have now quite determined, and really almost made up my mind - to refuse Mr. Martin. Do you think I am right?'
`Perfectly, perfectly right, my dearest Harriet; you are doing just what you ought. While you were at all in suspense I kept my feelings to myself, but now that you are so completely decided I have no hesitation in approving. Dear Harriet, I give myself joy of this. It would have grieved me to lose your acquaintance, which must have been the consequence of your marrying Mr. Martin. While you were in the smallest degree wavering, I said nothing about it, because I would not influence; but it would have been the loss of a friend to me. I could not have visited Mrs. Robert Martin, of Abbey-Mill Farm. Now I am secure of you for ever.'
Harriet had not surmised her own danger, but the idea of it struck her forcibly.
`You could not have visited me!' she cried, looking aghast. `No, to be sure you could not; but I never thought of that before. That would have been too dreadful! - What an escape! - Dear Miss Woodhouse, I would not give up the pleasure and honour of being intimate with you for any thing in the world.'
`Indeed, Harriet, it would have been a severe pang to lose you; but it must have been. You would have thrown yourself out of all good society. I must have given you up.'
`Dear me! - How should I ever have borne it! It would have killed me never to come to Hartfield any more!'
`Dear affectionate creature! - You banished to Abbey-Mill Farm! - You confined to the society of the illiterate and vulgar all your life! I wonder how the young man could have the assurance to ask it. He must have a pretty good opinion of himself.'
`I do not think he is conceited either, in general,' said Harriet, her conscience opposing such censure; `at least, he is very good natured, and I shall always feel much obliged to him, and have a great regard for - but that is quite a different thing from - and you know, though he may like me, it does not follow that I should - and certainly I must confess that since my visiting here I have seen people - and if one comes to compare them, person and manners, there is no comparison at all, one is so very handsome and agreeable. However, I do really think Mr. Martin a very amiable young man, and have a great opinion of him; and his being so much attached to me - and his writing such a letter - but as to leaving you, it is what I would not do upon any consideration.'
`Thank you, thank you, my own sweet little friend. We will not be parted. A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.'
`Oh no; - and it is but a short letter too.'
Emma felt the bad taste of her friend, but let it pass with a `very true; and it would be a small consolation to her, for the clownish manner which might be offending her every hour of the day, to know that her husband could write a good letter.'
`Oh! yes, very. Nobody cares for a letter; the thing is, to be always happy with pleasant companions. I am quite determined to refuse him. But how shall I do? That shall I say?'
Emma assured her there would be no difficulty in the answer, and advised its being written directly, which was agreed to, in the hope of her assistance; and though Emma continued to protest against any assistance being wanted, it was in fact given in the formation of every sentence. The looking over his letter again, in replying to it, had such a softening tendency, that it was particularly necessary to brace her up with a few decisive expressions; and she was so very much concerned at the idea of making him unhappy, and thought so much of what his mother and sisters would think and say, and was so anxious that they should not fancy her ungrateful, that Emma believed if the young man had come in her way at that moment, he would have been accepted after all.
This letter, however, was written, and sealed, and sent. The business was finished, and Harriet safe. She was rather low all the evening, but Emma could allow for her amiable regrets, and sometimes relieved them by speaking of her own affection, sometimes by bringing forward the idea of Mr. Elton.
`I shall never be invited to Abbey-Mill again,' was said in rather a sorrowful tone.
`Nor, if you were, could I ever bear to part with you, my Harriet. You are a great deal too necessary at Hartfield to be spared to Abbey-Mill.'
`And I am sure I should never want to go there; for I am never happy but at Hartfield.'
Some time afterwards it was, `I think Mrs. Goddard would be very much surprized if she knew what had happened. I am sure Miss Nash would - for Miss Nash thinks her own sister very well married, and it is only a linen-draper.'

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
- Benjamin Franklin
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
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at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha 

What you resist persists.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
What you resist persists.
- Carl Jung
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
We are what we believe we are.
- C. S. Lewis 

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tsu
To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius 

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Letting go doesn't mean giving up... it means moving on.
- Anonymous

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
- Hermann Hesse

How do geese know when to fly to the sun?
Who tells them the seasons?
How do we, humans know when it is time to move on?
As with the migrant birds, so surely with us,
there is a voice within if only we would listen to it,
that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

When I see your smile, and I know it's not for me, that's when I'll miss you.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

When I see your smile, and I know it's not for me, that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous

Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch

You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. - Bob Hope

A fool and his money are soon elected.
- Will Rogers

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
- Kin Hubbard

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
- Joseph Campbell

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
- Ted Turner

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige

- Albert Einstein

Though force can protect in emergency,
only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
- Alexander Graham Bell

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous