# Quote — Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

> Depend upon it, you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere— and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves.

- Author: [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md)
- Book: [Mansfield Park](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/mansfield-park.md)
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> If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

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> One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

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> Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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