If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Quote by Charlotte Bronte

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Look twice before you leap.

Look twice before you leap.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that...

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that...

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

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

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil...

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil...

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

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...

Who has words at the right moment?

Who has words at the right moment?

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

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...

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...

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to...

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to...

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.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting...

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting...