Charlotte Bronte Quotes

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• I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
• You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
• 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…
• The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
• A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
• Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
• 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…
• I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
• I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
• I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
• Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
• Better to be without logic than without feeling.
• Conventionality is not morality.
• Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
• Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
• True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
• I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
• 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…
• 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…

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