ANNE BRONTË QUOTES II

English novelist & poet (1820-1849)

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My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring
And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze;
For above and around me the wild wind is roaring,
Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.

ANNE BRONTË

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You may rejoice to think yourselves secure,
You may be grateful for the gift divine,
That grace unsought which made your black hearts pure
And fits your earthborn souls in Heaven to shine.
But is it sweet to look around and view
Thousands excluded from that happiness,
Which they deserve at least as much as you,
Their faults not greater nor their virtues less?

ANNE BRONTË

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I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

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

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The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments.

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Where hope rises fear must lurk behind.

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All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil, till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.

ANNE BRONTË

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But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

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Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship.

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You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.

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There's nothing like active employment to console the afflicted.

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It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man.

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

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A sinless God, for sinful men,
Descends to suffer and to bleed;
Hell must renounce its empire then;
The price is paid, the world is freed,
And Satan's self must now confess,
That Christ has earned a Right to bless.

ANNE BRONTË

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

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To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of heaven, is as if the groveling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.

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But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.

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If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation.

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

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In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child -- ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.

ANNE BRONTË

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