Charlotte Brontë Quotes
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Every picture tells a story.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.
Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, meet the expectation.
A memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure, an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
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.
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.
It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own; we must look at their truth to themselves, full as much as their truth to us.
