It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Quote by Charlotte Bronte

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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved...

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved...

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...

Who has words at the right moment?

Who has words at the right moment?

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.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

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

Conventionality is not morality.

Conventionality is not morality.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

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...

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...

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must...

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must...

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.

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...

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing...

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing...

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.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter...

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter...

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...

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says,...

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says,...

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such...

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such...