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“The wind I hear it sighing, with autumn's saddest sound; withered leaves all thick are lying, as spring-flowers on the ground. This dark night has won me to wander far away; old feelings gather fast upon me.”

Feelings Sadness Wind England Nostalgia Weather Autumn Melancholy Season Bronte Sisters

Book:The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte Volume 1

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte Volume 1

“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.”

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Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“When I feel it my duty to speak an unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader’s immediate pleasure as well as my own.”

Feminism British Literature Bronte Sisters

Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“I call that creativity," Orville said. "The purpose of literature is to teach you how to THINK, not how to be practical. Learning to discover the connective tissue between seemingly unrelated events is the only way we are equipped to understand patterns in the real world.”

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Book:The Madwoman Upstairs

Source: The Madwoman Upstairs

“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

Author:Charlotte Brontë

“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.”

Victorian Jane Eyre Female Writer Bronte Sisters Charlotte Bronte Bronte Quotes Victorian Novel

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre