7 quotes by Charlotte Bronte

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

Friendship

4.5 · 39 votes · 152 reads

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It is 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.

Humankind

3.3 · 57 votes

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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bli

Inheritance

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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 there, firm as weeds among stones.

Prejudice

4.2 · 29 votes · 134 reads

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Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall sti

Reason

4.3 · 47 votes · 127 reads

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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
4.7 · 35 votes · 54 reads
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Society
You - poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are - I entreat to accept me as a husband.
3.0 · 29 votes · 169 reads
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