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Quotes from Charlotte Bronte


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Look twice before you leap.


I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.


I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.


Who has words at the right moment?


Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.


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


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


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.


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.


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.


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


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.


The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.


There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.


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


Let your performance do the thinking.


Conventionality is not morality.


True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.


Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.


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.