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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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No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
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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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A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes.
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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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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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What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
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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.
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What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?
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To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling 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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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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[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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What a fool you must be, said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
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I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.
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Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?
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Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
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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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Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
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The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments
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I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
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There is always a but in this imperfect world.
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