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Look twice before you leap.

Look twice before you leap.

Charlotte Bronte
Life, Women, Responsibility
Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.158, Everyman's Library

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

Charlotte Bronte
Fighting, Feminism, Battle

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

Charlotte Bronte
Happiness, Sound, World
"Villette". Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition,

Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.

Charlotte Bronte
Eye, Judging
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

Make my happiness--I will make yours.

Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte, Wayne Josephson (2009). “Jane Eyre (Readable Classics)”, p.182, Chadwick Publishing

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

Charlotte Bronte
Demand, Combination, Circumstances
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.116, Penguin

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

Charlotte Bronte
Men, Worry, Mind
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

Charlotte Bronte
Integrity, Angel, Gender
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

Charlotte Bronte
Mind, Library, Bliss
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

Charlotte Bronte
Flower, Night, June
Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Jane Eyre (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.286, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

Misery generates hate.

Charlotte Bronte
Hate, Misery, Unhappiness
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

Charlotte Bronte
Stars, Wings, Liberty
1853 Villette, ch.6.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Charlotte Bronte
Inspirational, Thinking, Action

Adversity is a good school.

Charlotte Bronte
School, Adversity, Trouble

That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.

Charlotte Bronte
Foundation, Firsts, Affection
Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.749, Everyman's Library

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

Charlotte Bronte
Existence, Enjoyed
Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.39, Xist Publishing

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

Charlotte Bronte
Forgiving, Lasts, Firsts
Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.26, Variocity

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

Charlotte Bronte
Happiness, Taste, Life And Happiness
"Editor's letter August 13" by Justine Picardie, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 27, 2013.

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

Charlotte Bronte
Love, Dream, Dare
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.412, ReadHowYouWant.com

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

Charlotte Bronte
Giving, Give Me
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.336, Penguin

You are human and fallible.

Charlotte Bronte
Humans
Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.189, Harper Collins

To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.

Charlotte Bronte
Character, Eye, Fire
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.213, Penguin

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

Charlotte Bronte
Hate, Overcoming, Violence
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

Charlotte Bronte
Depressing, Pages, Difficult

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

Charlotte Bronte
Forget, Fortune, Forsake
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.243, Penguin

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