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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
There's always a chance of death; and it is always well to live with such a chance in view
— 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
And art thou still so dear to me,
That throbbing heart and burning tears
Can witness how I cling to thee? — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense
— Anne Bronte