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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

Anne Bronte

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Anne Bronte
Age: 29 †
Born: 1820
Born: January 17
Died: 1849
Died: May 28
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West Yorkshire
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Farewell to Thee! But not farewell To all my fondest thoughts of Thee Within my heart they still shall dwell And they shall cheer and comfort me.
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Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?
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Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.
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No for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit.
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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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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.
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Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.
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A girl's affections should never be won unsought.
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God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.
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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 besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity.
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I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.
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Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
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My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.
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You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.
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What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
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[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.
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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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It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.
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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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Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!
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