Charlotte Bronte

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• Quote 2219

  True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it
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• Quote 2218

  Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter
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• Quote 2217

  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 there, firm as weeds among stones
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• Quote 2216

  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
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• Quote 2215

  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
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• Quote 2214

  Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves
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• Quote 2213

  The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter, often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter, in the eye
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• Quote 2212

  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
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• Quote 2211

  You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world
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• Quote 2210

  Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last
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• Quote 2209

  I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me
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• Quote 2208

  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
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• Quote 2207

  If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends
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• Quote 2206

  I feel monotony and death to be almost the same
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• Quote 2205

  Look twice before you leap
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• Quote 2204

  Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation
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• Quote 2203

  I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward
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• Quote 2202

  Better to be without logic than without feeling
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• Quote 2201

  If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own
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• Quote 1636

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