I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature’s heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold – but not our brother-men – not even the best and kindest amongst them.

— Anne Brontë

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What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?

— Anne Brontë

I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature’s heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold – but not our brother-men – not even the best and kindest amongst them.

— Anne Brontë

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 Brontë

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

— Anne Brontë

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one’s kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one’s teeth.

— Anne Brontë

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship.

— Anne Brontë

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.

— Anne Brontë

I am truly miserable – more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

— Anne Brontë

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

— Anne Brontë

Life and hope must cease together.

— Anne Brontë

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

— Anne Brontë

I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me.

— Anne Brontë

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

— Anne Brontë

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!

— Anne Brontë

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

— Anne Brontë

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

— Anne Brontë

There’s nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

— Anne Brontë

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

— Anne Brontë

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

— Anne Brontë

Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear?

— Anne Brontë
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