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He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him. — Anne Bronte

My nature was not originally calm,' said I. 'I have learned to appear so by dint of hard lessons and many repeated efforts. — Anne Bronte

If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation — Anne Bronte

There's always a chance of death; and it is always well to live with such a chance in view — Anne Bronte

Although I maintain that if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting. — Anne Bronte

I'll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of. — Anne Bronte

there is always a but in this imperfect world! — Anne Bronte

Severed and gone, so many years!
And art thou still so dear to me,
That throbbing heart and burning tears
Can witness how I cling to thee? — Anne Bronte

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves. — Anne Bronte

It seems as if life and hope must cease together. — Anne Bronte

It's well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced. — Anne Bronte

But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose. — Anne Bronte

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can. — Anne Bronte

In all we do, and hear, and see,
Is restless Toil and Vanity.
While yet the rolling earth abides,
Men come and go like ocean tides — Anne Bronte

It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended. — Anne Bronte

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me. — Anne Bronte

Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own. — Anne Bronte

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth. — Anne Bronte

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed. — Anne Bronte

...sick of mankind and their disgusting ways... — Anne Bronte

Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be. — Anne Bronte

Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear? — Anne Bronte

I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do. — Anne Bronte

That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true. — Anne Bronte

You'll find a man can live without his money as merrily as a tortoise without its head, or a wasp without its body." '"But — Anne Bronte

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love. — Anne Bronte

I hate talking where there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received — Anne Bronte

A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he
admired in others, but he could not acquire it himself. — Anne Bronte

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness. — Anne Bronte

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them. — Anne Bronte

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe. — Anne Bronte

There is perfect love in Heaven! — Anne Bronte

He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly — Anne Bronte

I flatter myself, at times, that though among them, I am not of them — Anne Bronte

I like my blood warm. I find cold blood as appetizing as an old stale cup of coffee. It's hard to choke down, but then again I'm finicky. — Gea Haff

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues. — Anne Bronte

We shouldn't always have what we want: it spoils the best of us, doesn't it? — Anne Bronte

Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all. — Anne Bronte

Who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was. — Anne Bronte

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too. — Anne Bronte

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. — Anne Bronte

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last! — Anne Bronte

The best way to enjoy yourself is to do what is right and hate nobody. — Anne Bronte

Matrimony is a serious thing. — Anne Bronte

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking. — Anne Bronte

The best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one. — Anne Bronte

But, God knows best, I concluded. — Anne Bronte

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes. — Anne Bronte

Revenge! No - what good would that do? - it would make him no better, and me no happier.' 'I — Anne Bronte

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments — Anne Bronte

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please — Anne Bronte

As usual, I have reaped the bitter fruits of my own error- and must reap them to the end. — Anne Bronte

What can't be cured must be endured," said I, — Anne Bronte

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect. — Anne Bronte

You prefer her faults to other people's perfection. — Anne Bronte

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other. — Anne Bronte

A girl's affections should never be won unsought. — Anne Bronte

Life and hope must cease together. — Anne Bronte

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes. — Anne Bronte

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise. — Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. — Anne Bronte

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather. — Anne Bronte

What a fool you must be, said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self. — Anne Bronte

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it. — Anne Bronte

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one's anger. — Anne Bronte

God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not. — Anne Bronte

And so you prefer her faults to other people's perfections? — Anne Bronte

I'll tell you a piece of news
I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell. — Anne Bronte

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not. — Anne Bronte

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. — Anne Bronte

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us. — Anne Bronte

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do. — Anne Bronte

It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them. — Anne Bronte

You have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness! — Anne Bronte

God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. — Anne Bronte

Well, let them seize on all they can;
One treasure still is mine,
A heart that loves to think on thee,
And feels the worth of thine. — Anne Bronte

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. — Anne Bronte

governess was not in yet; then, — Anne Bronte

It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures! — Anne Bronte

It is never too late to reform, as long as you have the sense to desire it, and the strength to execute your purpose. — Anne Bronte

Long have I dwelt forgotten here
In pining woe and dull despair;
This place of solitude and gloom
Must be my dungeon and my tomb. — Anne Bronte

Nobody knew him as I did; nobody could appreciate him as I did; nobody could love him as I - could. — Anne Bronte

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay. — Anne Bronte

My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will. — Anne Bronte

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command. — Anne Bronte

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze. — Anne Bronte

The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live ... — Anne Bronte

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike. — Anne Bronte

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted. — Anne Bronte

No one can be happy in eternal solitude. — Anne Bronte

I'm not going to defile my fingers with him,' said I, in answer to the maternal intercession. 'I wouldn't touch him with the tongs.' I — Anne Bronte

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind. — Anne Bronte

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. — Anne Bronte

The more happiness we bestow, the more we shall receive, even here; and the greater will be our reward in heaven when we rest from our labours. — Anne Bronte

A hardness such as this is taught by rough experience and despair alone — Anne Bronte

if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense — Anne Bronte

Well, and what was there in that?
Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig? — Anne Bronte

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own! — Anne Bronte

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books. — Anne Bronte

What business had I to think of one that never thought of me? — Anne Bronte