Charlotte Bronte Quotes

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• What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Want, Firsts, Ignite

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• Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Doe, Alive, Birth

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• Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Trying, Empty, Blank

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.407, Everyman's Library

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• The shadows are as important as the light.

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  Light, Shadow, Important

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving Forward

  "Bronte goes pop...", www.harpersbazaar.com. August 23, 2011.

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

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  Life, Forgiveness, Hate

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Your will shall decide your destiny.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Destiny, Your Destiny

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• Better to be without logic than without feeling.

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  Life, Thinking, Feelings

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.895, Everyman's Library

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• The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Ocean, Sunset, Sea

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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 firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

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  Sad, Education, Weed

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.426, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Happiness, Feelings, Comfort

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.202, Penguin

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• 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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  Broken Heart, Dream, Silence

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.73, The Floating Press

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• Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

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  Silence, Different, Kind

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

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  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.130, Variocity

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• Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.

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  Summer, Morning, Spring

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

  Charlotte Bronte

  Life, Success, Expectations

  Villette ch. 36 (1853)

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• Make my happiness--I will make yours.

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

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• Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Giving, Independence, Spirit

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• Misery generates hate.

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  Hate, Misery, Unhappiness

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

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• To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Character, Eye, Fire

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.213, Penguin

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

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  Mind, Library, Bliss

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

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• Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.

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  Eye, Judging

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

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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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• Remorse is the poison of life.

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  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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