Anne Bronte Quotes

• I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I – of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

  Anne Bronte

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• Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

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• What is it that constitutes virtue, Mrs Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptation to resist?

  Anne Bronte

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• He’ll be all right when he’s married, as Mama says; and reformed rakes make the best husbands, everybody knows. I only wish he were not so ugly—that’s all I think about—but then there’s no choice here in the country.

  Anne Bronte

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• All true histories contain instruction; though in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

  Anne Bronte

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• My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; For above and around me the wild wind is roaring, Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.

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• To think a soul so near divine, Within a form, so angel fair, United to a heart like thine, Has gladdened once our humble sphere.

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• The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

  Anne Bronte

  Topics in Life

• Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

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• What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

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• I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

  Anne Bronte

  Topics in Love

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• There is always a “but” in this imperfect world.

  Anne Bronte

• She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.

  Anne Bronte

• Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

  Anne Bronte

• If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

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• I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

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• His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

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• But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

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• A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

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  Topics in Nature

Anne Bronte (19)

Birth:	17th January, 1820
Death:	28th May, 1849
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Poet

About

Anne Brontë was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.  At the age of 19 she left Haworth and worked as a governess between 1839 and 1845. After leaving her teaching position, she fulfilled her literary ambitions. She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters and two novels. Agnes Grey, based upon her experiences as a governess, was published in 1847. Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848. Anne's life was cut short when she died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 29.

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