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Charlotte Bronte
(1816-1855 / Yorkshire / England)
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28 poems of Charlotte Bronte
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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's stre...
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Charlotte Brontė (1816-1855), British novelist. Eliza Reed to her sister Georgiana, in Jane Eyre, ch. 21 (1847).
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But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that at times strangely wills and works for itself.... If the result be attra...
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Charlotte Brontė (1816-1855), British novelist. Emily Brontė, Wuthering Heights, preface (1850).
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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after- flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poiso...
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Charlotte Brontė (1816-1855), British novelist. Jane Eyre, ch. 4 (1847).
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''Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.''
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Charlotte Brontė (1816-55), British novelist. Jane Eyre, ch. 21 (1847).
"Deglutition" means the action of swallowing [OED]...
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''Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.''
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Charlotte Brontė (1816-1855), British novelist. Jane Eyre, ch. 29 (1847).
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''It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.''
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Charlotte Brontė (1816-1855), British novelist. Jane Eyre, ch. 12 (1847).
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Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too ...
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Charlotte Brontė (1816-1855), British novelist. Jane Eyre, ch. 12 (1847).
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''If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.''
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Charlotte Brontė (1816-1855), British novelist. Jane Eyre, ch. 14 (1847).
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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave ...
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Charlotte Brontė (1816-1855), British novelist. Jane Eyre, ch. 33 (1847).
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Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labours for his race; he clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that e...
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Charlotte Brontė (1816-1855), British novelist. Jane Eyre, ch. 38 (1847).
of the missionary St. John Rogers.
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