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Quote by Charlotte Bronte

“What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.”

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Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist known for her novel Jane Eyre, which is considered a classic of English literature. Her works are known for their deep psychological insights and emotional intensity. more

“My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.”

Men Should Hands Form Night Suffering Watches Wise Blood Son Praying Despair Eternal Resources Strikes Aids Naked Thee Void Wet Strokes Toil I Pray Crushed Jehovah Desolate

Book:The Professor

Source: The Professor

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. 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.”

Heart Ends Peace Worry Acceptance My Heart Lows Injustice Calm Revenge Crush Bitterness Disgusting Creeds Too Short Nursing Degradation Animosity

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.”

Romance Night Morning Youth Summer Spring Seasons Winter Maturity Attributes Noon Repose Freshness

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.”

Years Littles Made Done Use Dream Lasts Next Gone Youth Thirty Thirty Years

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.”

Easy Charity Hunger Hungry Degradation

Book:Shirley and The Professor

Source: Shirley and The Professor

“Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.”

Years Late England Fallen Showers Clergy

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?”

Want Given Existence Terrible Craving Mockery Hollowness

Book:Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.”

Would Be Vain Consolation Flattery

Author:Charlotte Bronte

Quote by Charlotte Bronte

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