Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
—Charlotte Bronte
Topics: Anger, Faith
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
Topics: Action
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd.
—Charlotte Bronte
Topics: Custom
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well.
—Charlotte Bronte
Indisputably a great, good, handsome man is the first of created things.
—Charlotte Bronte
Topics: Man
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
—Charlotte Bronte
Topics: Thinking
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.
—Charlotte Bronte
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
—Charlotte Bronte
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