"Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive……" — Charlotte Bronte
"Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star."
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Charlotte Bronte
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315 Quotes by Charlotte Bronte
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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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