Charlotte Bronte Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.	Anger
2	Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.	Consistency
3	During these eight years my life was uniform, but not unhappy, because it was not inactive. I had the means of an excellent education placed within my reach; a fondness for some of my studies, and a desire to excel in all, together with a great delight in pleasing my teachers, especially such as I loved, urged me on: I availed myself fully of the advantages offered me.	Education
4	Where is God? What is God? My maker and yours, who will never destroy what he created. I rely implicitly on his power, and confide wholly in all his goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me. You are sure, then, that there is such a place as heaven: and that our soul can get to it when we die?	God
5	Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.	Ideals
6	My world had for some years been in Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems: now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.	Parting
7	Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.	Prejudice
8	Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.	Sadness
9	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.	Tranquility
10	It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.	Youth

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