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Vain Hopes Quotes

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Anne Brontë
“I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.'

'That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us.”
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

H. Rider Haggard
“Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!”
H. Rider Haggard, She

Ben Johnson
“A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.”
Ben Johnson

Jane Austen
“It would hardly be early in November, there were generally delays, a bad passage or something; that favouring something which everybody who shuts their eyes while they look, or their understandings while they reason, feel the comfort of.”
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park