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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte
Self, Independence, Lasts
'Jane Eyre' (2nd ed., 1848) preface

Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.

Charlotte Bronte
Blessing, Knowing, Joy
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.141, The Floating Press

If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.

Charlotte Bronte
Soul, Disappointed, Ifs

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Charlotte Bronte
Self Esteem, Being Single, Self Reliance
Charlotte Bronte (2015). “Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.398, 谷月社

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

Charlotte Bronte
Narrators, Tongue, Listeners
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.165, Penguin

as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

Charlotte Bronte
Kindness, May, Hearty
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.186, Penguin

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

Charlotte Bronte
Encouragement, Heart, Night
Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.109, Xist Publishing

Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

Charlotte Bronte
Mean, Principles, Propensity
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Bronte
Friendship, Sake, Foundation

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

Charlotte Bronte
Thank You, Doe, Answers
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.81, Penguin

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Charlotte Bronte
Self, Giving, Soul
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.166, Penguin

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Charlotte Bronte
High Heels, Giving, Rope

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

Charlotte Bronte
Thinking, Animated, Weariness
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.366, Penguin

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.

Charlotte Bronte
Men, International Women's Day
"Jane Eyre".

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Charlotte Bronte
Single, Lonely, Loneliness

Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.

Charlotte Bronte
Sex, Genius, Limits

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

Charlotte Bronte
Waiting, Sincerity, Theory
"Charlotte Brontë: the self conceived". p. 235. Book by Helene Moglen, 1984.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

Charlotte Bronte
Heartbreak, Saying Goodbye, Thinking
Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Bronte
Love, Inspirational, Life

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

Charlotte Bronte
Enemy, My Friends, I Can

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

Charlotte Bronte
Brother, Exercise, Men
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Charlotte Bronte
Freedom, Women, Equality
Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.66, Variocity

Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.

Charlotte Bronte
Sex, Flirty, Flirting

Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.

Charlotte Bronte
One Day, Earth, Firsts
Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.475, Xist Publishing

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --

Charlotte Bronte
Writing, Sleep, Giving

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