"The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and……" — Charlotte Bronte
"The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak."
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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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More Asserting Quotes
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon…
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting…
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I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in…
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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting…
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As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means…
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In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful…
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The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with…
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Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is…
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