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 BRONTEI do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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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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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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I have no wish to talk nonsense.” “If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
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I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand – they only. Know this at last.
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.
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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
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I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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