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The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments
Anne Bronte
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Anne Bronte
Age: 29 †
Born: 1820
Born: January 17
Died: 1849
Died: May 28
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But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
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I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
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I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me.
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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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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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Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!
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I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now the face of the country may be changed but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.
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There is perfect love in heaven!
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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
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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.
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And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.
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I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
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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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I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
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To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
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He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly
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It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
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