"Would you not be happier if you tried……" — Charlotte Bronte
"Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Helen Burns"
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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 Animosity Quotes
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
— Charlotte Bronte
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I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that…
— Jimmy Carter
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You can let hate, animosity and anger eat away at you, or you can let it go and begin again.
— Leon Brown
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear…
— Walter Savage Landor
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A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much…
— James Madison
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I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The second effort was spreading the word among the people, first, in a bid to raise their morale, and second…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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Every Muslim, from the moment they realize the distinction in their hearts, hates Americans, hates Jews and hates Christians. For…
— Osama bin Laden
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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other…
— Mark Twain
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The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper…
— Grover Cleveland
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A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected…
— George Washington
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We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from…
— James Madison
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