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All Quotes by author - Charlotte Bronte

" A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. "

" Better to be without logic than without feeling. "

" 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 and around us. "

" Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. "

" Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. "

" I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. "

" I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. "

" I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me. "

" I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. "

" If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. "

" If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. "

" I'm just going to write because I cannot help it. "

" It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. "

" It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. "

" I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. "

Looking Forward

" Let your performance do the thinking. "

" Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. "

" Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. "

" Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. "

" Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. "

" 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 firm there, firm as weeds among stones. "

" 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 revealed. "

" The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. "

" Who has words at the right moment? "

" You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. "

" You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. "

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