A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Quote by Charlotte Bronte

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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for...

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for...

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous...

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous...

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state...

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state...

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too...

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too...

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too...

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too...

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead...

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead...

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation

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

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

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they...

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they...

Conventionality is not morality.

Conventionality is not morality.

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the...

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the...

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit...

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit...

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

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

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being...

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being...