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Charlotte Brontë

English novelist; oldest of three Bronte sisters (1816-1855)

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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.

– Charlotte Brontë

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But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.

– Charlotte Brontë

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

– Charlotte Bronte

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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

– Charlotte Bronte

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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.

– Charlotte Bronte

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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

– Charlotte Brontë

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

– Charlotte Bronte

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

– Charlotte Brontë

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Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

– Charlotte Bronte

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

– Charlotte Bronte

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

– Charlotte Bronte

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

– Charlotte Brontë

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Look twice before you leap.

– Charlotte Bronte

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

– Charlotte Bronte

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No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

– Charlotte Bronte

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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 rocks.

– Charlotte Bronte

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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.

– Charlotte Brontë

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Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.

– Charlotte Brontë

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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

– Charlotte Brontë

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The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

– Charlotte Bronte

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You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.

– Charlotte Brontë

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