Charlotte Bronte Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Charlotte Bronte Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
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Conventionality is not morality.
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Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
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I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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Let your performance do the thinking.
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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Look twice before you leap.
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
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Who has words at the right moment?
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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
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You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
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