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Anne Bronte Inspirational Quotes (92)

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Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?
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If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.
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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.
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But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
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No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
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The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.
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What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?
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The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments
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All true histories contain instruction though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
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I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
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You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.
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It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.
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the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.
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My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.
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There is always a but in this imperfect world.
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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
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Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.
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Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship
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To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
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What a fool you must be, said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
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Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!
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I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?
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I do believe a young lady can't be too careful who she marries.
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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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