Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

Novelist, Poet

Charlotte Bronte was a 19th-century English novelist known for her profound exploration of love and identity in works like 'Jane Eyre'.

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Born
April 21, 1816
Died
May 31, 1855
Quotes
374
Rank
#74

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"I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end."

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"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."

Happiness Sound World
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"Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you."

Struggle Independent Bird
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"We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence."

God Nature Night
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"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear."

Love Romantic Pain
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"Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!"

Force Gentleness
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"I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame."

Selfish Laughing Soul
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"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."

Hate Wicked Guilt
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"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."

I Love You Beauty Love You
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"I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal--as we are!"

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

Friendship Sake Foundation
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"If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!"

Summer Spring Sunshine
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"Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare."

Love Dream Dare
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"There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may."

May Cost Lovers
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"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."

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