Anne Brontë quotes - page 5

Don't you know that every time we meet the thoughts of the final parting will become more painful? Don't you feel that every interview makes us dearer to each other than the last? (Anne Brontë)
Though I hate him from my heart, and should rejoice at any calamity that could befall him, I'll leave him to God; and though I abhor my own life, I'll leave that, too, to Him that gave it. View quote
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If you mean Mr. Weston to be one of your victims," said I, with affected indifference, "you will have to make such overtures yourself that you will find it difficult to draw back when he asks you to fulfil the expectations you have raised. View quote
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If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do. View quote
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The more you loved your God the more deep and pure and true would be your love to me. View quote
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Whatever my husband's faults may be, it can only aggravate the evil for me to hear them from a stranger's lips. View quote
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If your wife gives you her heart, you must take it, thankfully, and use it well, and not pull it in pieces, and laugh in her face, because she cannot snatch it away. View quote
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He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him. View quote
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I think your piety one of your greatest charms; but then, like all other good things, it may be carried too far. To my thinking, a woman's religion ought not to lessen her devotion to her earthly lord. She should have enough to purify and etherealise her soul, but not enough to refine away her heart, and raise her above all human sympathies. View quote
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I sometimes think she has no feeling at all; and then I go on till she cries - and that satisfies me. View quote
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God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and Love; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fullness of the Godhead shines. (Anne Brontë)
I have often wished in vain," said she, "for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it." "That," replied I, "is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us. View quote
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I will not allow myself to be worse than my fellows. View quote
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It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man. View quote
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It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them. View quote
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The demon of drink was as black as the demon of play, and nearly as hard to get rid of - especially as his kind friends did all they could to second the promptings of his own insatiable cravings. View quote
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Friends as we are, we would willingly keep your failings to ourselves - even from ourselves if we could, unless by knowing them we could deliver you from them. View quote
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It is never too late to reform, as long as you have the sense to desire it, and the strength to execute your purpose. View quote
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It's well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced. View quote
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I ever give a thought to another, you may well spare it, for those fancies are here and gone like a flash of lightning, while my love for you burns on steadily, and for ever, like the sun. View quote
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Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all. (Anne Brontë)
And you thought to rob me of my son too, and bring him up to be a dirty Yankee tradesman, or a low, beggarly painter?" "Yes, to obviate his becoming such a gentleman as his father. View quote
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God have mercy on his miserable soul! and make him see and feel his guilt - I ask no other vengeance! If he could but fully know and truly feel my wrongs I should be well avenged, and I could freely pardon all. View quote
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I know I owe my all to Thee, O, take this heart I cannot give. Do Thou my Strength my Saviour be; And make me to Thy glory live! View quote
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He knows he is my sun, but when he chooses to withhold his light, he would have my sky to be all darkness; he cannot bear that I should have a moon to mitigate the deprivation. View quote
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