I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight in,—with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“When I tried to pray I could only utter these words: “From my youth up Thy terrors have I suffered with a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“What will you do with your accomplishments? What, with the largest portion of your mind - sentiments - tastes?" Save them till… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. Every atom of your flesh… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“[...] I could not go on for ever so: I want to enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“My state of mind, and all accompanying circumstances, were just now such as most to favour the adoption of a new, resolute,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like taking all you do at a moderate estimate: it keeps mind and body tranquil; whereas grandiloquent notions are… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night--… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I felt the truth of these words; and I drew from them the certain inference, that if I were so far to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind: his praise and notice were more… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I know what sort of a mind I have placed in communication with my own: I know it is one not liable… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of peace, calmly intent… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Some time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing the western sun gilding the sign of its… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Shall I?” I said briefly; and I looked at his features, beautiful in their harmony, but strangely formidable in their still severity;… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“These were vile discoveries; but except for the treachery of concealment, I should have made them no subject of reproach to my… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a good deal… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I might have been different, I might have been as good as you - wiser - almost stainless. I envy your peace… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The first day of January always presents to my mind a train of very solemn and important reflections and a question more… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I felt physically weak and broken down, but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind; a wretchedness which kept drawing… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though He often… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Not one spark of spirit, not one symptom of resistance, would they have shown till the hand of the Corsican bandit had grasped that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
![“[...] I could not go on for ever so: I want to enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those of other people. I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday.” quote by Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c31/charlotte-bronte-144_education_i-could-not-go-on-for-ever-so-i-want-to_2420674.jpg)
![“The first day of January always presents to my mind a train of very solemn and important reflections and a question more easily asked than answered frequently occurs viz: How have I improved the past year and with [what] good intentions do I view the dawn of its successor?” quote by Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7b4/charlotte-bronte-144_bronte-sisters_the-first-day-of-january-always-presents_2721269.jpg)
