He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it."" Then, it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction. Jane Austen
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  2. Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular. - Roy T. Bennett

  3. Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right. - Roy T. Bennett

  4. Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right. - Roy T. Bennett

  5. A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right. - Sophie Kinsella

More Quotes By Jane Austen
  1. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

  2. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

  3. In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  4. The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

  5. I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

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