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“It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what is your fate to be required to bear.”

Fate Bronte Sisters

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“True, generous feeling is made small account by some[.] [...] Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.”

Judgment Feeling Jane Eyre Bronte Sisters

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“Women read men more truly than men read women. I’ll prove that in a magazine paper some day when I have time; only it will never be inserted. It will be ‘declined with thanks,’ and left for me at the publisher’s.”

Shirley Bronte Sisters Bronte Quotes

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“The first day of January always presents to my mind a train of very solemn and important reflections and a question more easily asked than answered frequently occurs viz: How have I improved the past year and with [what] good intentions do I view the dawn of its successor?”

New Years Day Bronte Sisters First Of January

Book:Lettere

Source: Lettere

“Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children’s brains, but strangely impressive.”

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Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

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