"I cannot get him to write or speak……" — Anne Bronte
"I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?"
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80 Quotes by Anne Bronte
Anne Bronte has 80 quotes on this site.
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Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick…
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A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
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But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
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I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would…
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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones…
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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks…
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I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad…
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Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and,…
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Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!
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Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost,…
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Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets,…
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I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author…
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