"No mockery in the world ever sounds to……" — Charlotte Bronte
"No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure."
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Charlotte Bronte
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315 Quotes by Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte has 315 quotes on this site.
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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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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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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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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,…
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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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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from…
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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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…
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but…
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine.…
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The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
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A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What…
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Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
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Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to…
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less…
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Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior…
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