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831f853
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And so you prefer her faults to other people's perfections?
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perfection
love
imperfections
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Anne Brontë |
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ad59a7a
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Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please
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men
women
future
happiness
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Anne Brontë |
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83c1821
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One glance he gave, one little smile at parting--it was but for a moment;but therein I read, a meaning that kindled in my heart a brighter flame of hope than had ever yet arisen.
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Anne Brontë |
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b51cba9
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Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon of day; When kindly thoughts that would have way, Flow back discouraged to my breast; I know there is, though far away, A home where heart and soul may rest. Warm hands are there, that, clasped in mine, The warmer heart will not belie; While mirth, and truth, and friendship shine In smiling lip and earnest eye. T..
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solitude
poetry
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Anne Brontë |
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1853b55
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If you would but consider your own unattractive exterior, your unamiable reserve, your foolish diffidence, which must make you appear cold, dull, awkward, and perhaps ill-tempered too;... if you had but rightly considered these from the beginning, you would never have harboured such presumptuous thoughts; and now that you have been so foolish, pray repent and amend, and let us have no more of it!
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Anne Brontë |
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Habitual associates are known to exercise a great influence over each other's minds and manners. Those whose actions are for ever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will, slowly, gradually, imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they do.
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Anne Brontë |
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ce7ca3c
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Those whose actions are forever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will, slowly, gradually, imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they do.
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Anne Brontë |
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ca0f286
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They that have beauty, let them be thankful for it, and make a good use of it, let them console themselves, and do the best they can without it: certainly, though liable to be over-estimated, it is a gift of God, and not to be despised. Many will feel this who have felt that they could love, and whose hearts tell them that they are worthy to be loved again; while yet they are debarred, by the lack of this or some such seeming trifle, from g..
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love
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Anne Brontë |
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Oh, they have robbed me of the hope. My spirit held so dear; They will not let me hear that voice My soul delights to hear. They will not let me see that face I so delight to see; And they have taken all thy smiles. And all thy love from me.
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Anne Brontë |
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ba2d900
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He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.
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hate
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Anne Brontë |
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7769f6b
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It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.
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dogs
men
women
dislike
cats
pets
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Anne Brontë |
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59debd5
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They that have beauty, let them be thankful for it, and make a good use of it, like any other talent; they that have it not, let them console themselves, and do the best they can without it: certainly, though liable to be over-estimated, it is a gift of God, and not to be despised.
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Anne Brontë |
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68eec65
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Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result
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marriage
happiness
love
sorrows
reality-of-life
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Anne Brontë |
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f486db2
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What the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false.
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truth
way-of-the-world
romanticism
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Anne Brontë |
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acf503e
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The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or anyone can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking. You might be miserable without a home, but even you could live; and not so miserably as you suppose. The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. If "little more than nothing will disturb it, little less than all things will suffice" to break it. As in th..
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life
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Anne Brontë |
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it is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble the foe;--and if you were to rear an oak sapling in a hothouse, tending it carefully night and day, and shielding it from every breath of wind, you could not expect it to become a hardy tree, like that which has grown up on the mountain-side, exposed to all the action of the elements, and not even sheltered from the shock of the tempest.' 'Granted;--but
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Anne Brontë |
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It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. So said the teachers of our childhood; and so say we to the children of the present day. All very judicious and proper, no doubt; but are such assertions supported by actual experience? We are naturally disposed to love wha..
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Anne Brontë |
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It is not, indeed, to be supposed that you would wish to marry any one till you were asked: a girl's affections should never be won unsought. But when they are sought - when the citadel of the heart is fairly besieged - it is apt to surrender sooner than the owner is aware of, and often against her better judgment, and in opposition to all her preconceived ideas of what she could have loved, unless she be extremely careful and discreet.
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Anne Brontë |
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4c566b0
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the reprehensible presumption of individuals who attempted to think for themselves in matters connected with religion, or to be guided by their own interpretations of Scripture,
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Anne Brontë |
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I can conceive few situations more harassing than that wherein, however you may long for success, however you may labour to fulfil your duty, your efforts are baffled and set at nought by those beneath you, and unjustly censured and misjudged by those above.
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Anne Brontë |
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d0ff33b
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Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.
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reason
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Anne Brontë |
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Oh, Youth may listen patiently, While sad Experience tells her tale, But Doubt sits smiling in his eye, For ardent Hope will still prevail! He hears how feeble Pleasure dies, By guilt destroyed, and pain and woe; He turns to Hope--and she replies, "Believe it not-it is not so!"
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poetry
hope
life
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Anne Brontë |
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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.
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solitude
vain-hopes
judgment
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Anne Brontë |
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c3b8126
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because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevated that we ourselves shall then regard as trifling those objects and pursuits we now so fondly cherish, and that, though our companions will no longer join us in those childish pastimes, they will drink with us at other fountains of delight, and mingle their souls with ours in higher aims and nobler occupations beyond our present comprehension, but..
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childhood-friends
companionship
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Anne Brontë |
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No matter. There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.
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relationships
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Anne Brontë |
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918f254
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the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment.
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Anne Brontë |
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But Arthur dislikes me to talk to him, and is visibly annoyed by his commonest acts of politeness; not that my husband has any unworthy suspicions of me--or of his friend either, as I believe--but he dislikes me to have any pleasure but in himself, any shadow of homage or kindness but such as he chooses to vouchsafe: 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 tha..
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Anne Brontë |
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a076963
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A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he admired in others, but he could not acquire it himself.
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envy
frankness
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Anne Brontë |
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6d7c811
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There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.' 'Then
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Anne Brontë |
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c97dabe
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But was there any harm in wishing that, among the many thousands whose souls would certainly be required of them before the year was over, this wretched mortal might be one? I thought not; and therefore I wished with all my heart that it might please Heaven to remove him to a better world, or if that might not be, still, to take him out of this...
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i-hate-you
i-wish-you-were-dead
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Anne Brontë |
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When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear...
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Anne Brontë |
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43ca9b7
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Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become deadened, my distinctions of right and wrong confounded, and all my better faculties be sunk, at last, beneath the baneful influence of such a mode of life.
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Anne Brontë |
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if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense
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Anne Brontë |
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No man can deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him," I replied: "it cost more to redeem their souls--it cost the blood of an incarnate God, perfect and sinless in Himself, to redeem us from the bondage of the evil one:--let Him plead for you."
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Anne Brontë |
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a066506
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What constitutes virtue, Mrs Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptations to resist?
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Anne Brontë |
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c946436
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Glupo je zudjeti za ljepotom. Razumni ljudi nikada ju ne zele za sebe, niti im je stalo do nje kod drugih ljudi. Samo ako je um dobro prosvijecen, a srce na pravome mjestu, nikome nikada nije vazna vanjstina. Tako su govorili ucitelji nasega djetinjstva; a tako i mi govorimo djeci danasnjih vremena. Sve vrlo razumno i umjesno, nema sumnje; ali imaju li takve tvrdnje podrsku u stvarnim iskustvima?
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Anne Brontë |
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366ae76
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Citanje je moje najdraze zanimanje, kada za to imam slobodnog vremena i knjiga koje bih citala.
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Anne Brontë |
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d41b118
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Mogla bih biti uistinu sretna u kuci punoj neprijatelja, kada bih imala samo jednog prijatelja, koji bi me istinski, duboko i vjerno volio.
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Anne Brontë |
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8d9c83e
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you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!
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youth
promise
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Anne Brontë |
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9647e1f
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When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them . . . .
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marriage
love
mistakes
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Anne Brontë |
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c354403
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If she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.
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Anne Brontë |
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e268548
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It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
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Anne Brontë |
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9add6c4
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You may have as many words as you please, - only I can't stay to hear them.
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Anne Brontë |
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02dd68d
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When a lady condescends to apologize, there is no keeping one's anger.
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Anne Brontë |