I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
- Charlotte Bronte
Forward, Keep, Backward, Upward
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
- Charlotte Bronte
Education, Been, Prejudices, Eradicate
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
- Charlotte Bronte
Guilt, Own, Conscience, Wicked
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
- Charlotte Bronte
Work, Always, Could, Obscurity
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
- Charlotte Bronte
Enthusiasm, See, Fine, Flash
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
- Charlotte Bronte
Hope, Broken, Thoughts, Charms
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
- Charlotte Bronte
Eye, Unconscious, Still, Truthful
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.
- Charlotte Bronte
Depends, Cheerfulness, Which, Fully
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
- Charlotte Bronte
I Am, Me, Always, Creed
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.
- Charlotte Bronte
Will, Satisfied, Vain, Tranquility
It is in 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.
- Charlotte Bronte
Will, Satisfied, Vain, Tranquility
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
- Charlotte Bronte
Nature, Majority, Cast, Yours
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.
- Charlotte Bronte
Living, Some, Other, Ought
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
Wisdom, Mind, Restless, Pillow
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
- Charlotte Bronte
Consistency, Christian, Madam
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
- Charlotte Bronte
Memory, New, Still, Callous
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
- Charlotte Bronte
World, Nothing, Like, Affections
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
- Charlotte Bronte
Love, Handsome, Though, Sir
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
- Charlotte Bronte
Independence, Human Being, Net
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
- Charlotte Bronte
Life, Too, Animosity, Wrongs
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
Wisdom, Twice, Before, Leap
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
Love, Friendship, Sure, Sake
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
- Charlotte Bronte
Better, Feeling, Than, Logic
Who has words at the right moment?
- Charlotte Bronte
Words, Right, Who, Right Moment
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
- Charlotte Bronte
Will, Match, Does, Constructed
Let your performance do the thinking.
- Charlotte Bronte
Thinking, Your, Performance
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
- Charlotte Bronte
Give, Himself, Hang, Rope
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
- Charlotte Bronte
Success, Looks, Efforts, Judge
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
- Charlotte Bronte
Death, Same, Monotony, I Feel
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
- Charlotte Bronte
I Am, Me, Only, Mad
Conventionality is not morality.
- Charlotte Bronte
Conventionality, Morality
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