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Letter "C" » Charlotte Bronte Quotes
«I feel monotony and death to be almost the same»
«If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.»
«It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it»
«Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| About:
Events,
Expectation,
Life
| Keywords:
constructed, event, expectation, match
«But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master / something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| Keywords:
attractive, creative work, owns, possesses, Praise You, repulsive, strangely, wills
«Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| Keywords:
burst, casting, casting vote, chasms, furiously, heathens, hurry, Last Judgment, last word, rage, rein, reined, reins, sits, sorts, The Last Judgment, The Last Word, The Passions, vote in
«You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| Keywords:
fasten, fastening, fastens, feebleness, reasonable, reasonable person, some other
«Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| Keywords:
cheerfulness
«I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will . . .»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| Keywords:
bird, ensnare, ensnared, free, human being, independent, net, netting, The Independent
«Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| Keywords:
aromatic, corrode, corroded, corrodes, corroding, flavor, for the first time, metallic, poisoned, racy, sensation, Swallowing, tasted, vengeance
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