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Aging1 quote
We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air;
We dug a spring in infancy
Of water pure and fair;
We sowed in youth a mustard seed,
We cut an almond rod;
We are now grown up to riper age —
Are they withered in the sod? — Charlotte Bronte · 1835Being in love1 quote
My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Custom and convention1 quote
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 Bronte · 1848Dignity1 quote
I would always rather be happy than dignified. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Disappointment1 quote
Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — Charlotte Bronte · 1853Education1 quote
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Effects of time1 quote
We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air;
We dug a spring in infancy
Of water pure and fair;
We sowed in youth a mustard seed,
We cut an almond rod;
We are now grown up to riper age —
Are they withered in the sod? — Charlotte Bronte · 1835Expectations1 quote
Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — Charlotte Bronte · 1853Falling in love1 quote
I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Female independence1 quote
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Finding the one1 quote
I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Forgiveness1 quote
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Freedom1 quote
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Grudges1 quote
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Happiness1 quote
I would always rather be happy than dignified. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Human nature1 quote
It is in 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. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Hypocrisy1 quote
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 Bronte · 1848Impermanence1 quote
We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air;
We dug a spring in infancy
Of water pure and fair;
We sowed in youth a mustard seed,
We cut an almond rod;
We are now grown up to riper age —
Are they withered in the sod? — Charlotte Bronte · 1835Independence1 quote
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Inner life1 quote
The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed. — Charlotte Bronte · 1846Love1 quote
I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Marriage1 quote
Reader, I married him. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Moral theory1 quote
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 Bronte · 1848Morality1 quote
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 Bronte · 1848Prejudice and bias1 quote
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Resentment1 quote
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Self-righteousness1 quote
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 Bronte · 1848Youth1 quote
We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air;
We dug a spring in infancy
Of water pure and fair;
We sowed in youth a mustard seed,
We cut an almond rod;
We are now grown up to riper age —
Are they withered in the sod? — Charlotte Bronte · 1835