“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
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Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels are English literature standards. Under the pen name Currer Bell, she wrote Jane Eyre. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Brontë Her sisters, Anne and Emily, first published their works as Acton and Ellis Bell.
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“It is in 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.”
“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
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“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
“God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it....”
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“[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.”
“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”
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“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
“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 whee...”
“Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I h...”
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious...”
“Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because...”
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“And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.”
“I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.”
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“~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults. ~Is he? ~All boys are. ~More than girls? ~Very likely. Wise peo...”
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“I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.”
“I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast.”
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“You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream”
“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread eve...”
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god...”
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