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- A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- 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 (1816 - 1855)
- 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 (1816 - 1855), Jane Eyre, 1847
- I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855), Jane Eyre pg. 61
- It is vain to say human beings might be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action, and they will make it if they can not find it.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home - not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855), Jane Eyre, page 62
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