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

Quote by Charlotte Bronte

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Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

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 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...

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...

Flirting is a womans trade, one must keep in practice.

Flirting is a womans trade, one must keep in practice.

Look twice before you leap.

Look twice before you leap.

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...

Conventionality is not morality.

Conventionality is not morality.

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.

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.

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...

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 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.

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...

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

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...

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...