Charlotte Bronte Quotes - Page 2

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• Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Forget, Fortune, Forsake

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.243, Penguin

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• The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Worry, Mind

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Fighting, Feminism, Battle

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• While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Existence, Enjoyed

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

  Charlotte Bronte

  People, Wicked, Desire

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Look twice before you leap.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Life, Women, Responsibility

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.158, Everyman's Library

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• I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

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  Believe, Sunshine, Life Is

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.350, Xist Publishing

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• God did not give me my life to throw it away.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Giving, Give Me

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.336, Penguin

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• Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love, Dream, Dare

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.412, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Remorse is the poison of life.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Regret, Poison, Remorse

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.115, Penguin

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• A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Depressing, Pages, Difficult

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• I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Integrity, Angel, Gender

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Happiness, Sound, World

  "Villette". Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition,

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• It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Thank You, Doe, Answers

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.81, Penguin

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• If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Soul, Disappointed, Ifs

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• Misery generates hate.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Misery, Unhappiness

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Make my happiness--I will make yours.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Charlotte Bronte, Wayne Josephson (2009). “Jane Eyre (Readable Classics)”, p.182, Chadwick Publishing

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• That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Foundation, Firsts, Affection

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.749, Everyman's Library

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• Let your performance do the thinking.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Inspirational, Thinking, Action

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• Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Happiness, Taste, Life And Happiness

  "Editor's letter August 13" by Justine Picardie, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 27, 2013.

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• Adversity is a good school.

  Charlotte Bronte

  School, Adversity, Trouble

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• His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mind, Library, Bliss

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You are human and fallible.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Humans

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.189, Harper Collins

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• Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Demand, Combination, Circumstances

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.116, Penguin

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• It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Overcoming, Violence

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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