“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 wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”

Charlotte Bronte

“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”

Charlotte Bronte

“You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections: There is nothing like it in the world.”

Charlotte Bronte

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

Charlotte Bronte

“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

Charlotte Bronte

“I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.”

Charlotte Bronte

“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”

Charlotte Bronte

“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.”

Charlotte Bronte

“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”

Charlotte Bronte

“If you are cast in a different mold to the majority, it is no merit of yours; nature did it.”

Charlotte Bronte

“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 attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.”

Charlotte Bronte

“To see and know the worst is to take from

fear her main advantage.”

Charlotte Bronte

“The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.”

Charlotte Bronte

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“Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.”

Charlotte Bronte

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

Charlotte Bronte

“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive!”

Charlotte Bronte

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

Charlotte Bronte

“Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.”

Charlotte Bronte

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

Charlotte Bronte

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