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title: "4 Crushed Quotes By Charlotte Bronte"
description: "4 Crushed quotes by Charlotte Bronte. Plus more from Charlotte Bronte and more Crushed sayings from other authors."
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> [My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/my-god-whose-son-as-on-this-night-took-on-him-the-form-of-man-and-for/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0f/charlotte-bronte-144_aids_my-god-whose-son-as-on-this-night-took-o_6820.jpg)

> [Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/besides-this-earth-and-besides-the-race-of-men-there-is-an-invisible-3/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9d/charlotte-bronte-144_angel_besides-this-earth-and-besides-the-race_994994.jpg)

> [A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/a-christmas-frost-had-come-at-midsummer-a-white-december-storm-had/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea9/charlotte-bronte-144_apples_a-christmas-frost-had-come-at-midsummer_2363601.jpg)

> [I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/i-only-want-an-easy-mind-sir-not-crushed-by-crowded-obligations/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

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## Other authors on Crushed

## More by Charlotte Bronte

> [When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/when-we-are-struck-at-without-a-reason-we-should-strike-back-again/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/my-god-whose-son-as-on-this-night-took-on-him-the-form-of-man-and-for/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [“A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though He often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/a-deal-of-people-miss-are-for-trusting-all-to-providence-but-i-say/)

[Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/this-night-is-not-calm-the-equinox-still-struggles-in-its-storms-the/)

[Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/how-dare-i-mrs-reed-how-dare-i-because-it-is-the-truth-you-think-i/)

[Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/if-men-could-see-us-as-we-really-are-they-would-be-a-little-amazed/)

[Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/if-all-the-world-hated-you-and-believed-you-wicked-while-your-own/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/life-appears-to-me-too-short-to-be-spent-in-nursing-animosity-or/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/poverty-for-me-is-synonymous-with-degradation/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/when-his-first-born-was-put-into-his-arms-he-could-see-that-the-boy/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/talented-people-almost-always-know-full-well-the-excellence-that-is/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [“Not one spark of spirit, not one symptom of resistance, would they have shown till the hand of the Corsican bandit had grasped that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/not-one-spark-of-spirit-not-one-symptom-of-resistance-would-they-have/)

[Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [“Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/love-can-excuse-anything-except-meanness-but-meanness-kills-love/)

[Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/i-think-you-will-learn-to-be-natural-with-me-as-i-find-it-impossible/)

[Charlotte Bronte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

> [“You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/you-are-no-ruin-sir-no-lighting-struck-tree-you-are-green-and/)

[Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

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