Anne Brontë Quotes.

1. "But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose."
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2. "It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe."
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3. "My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze."
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4. "What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed."
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5. "All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise."
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6. "To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it the most honest, or the safest? Is it better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of like to the young and thoughtless traveller, or to cover them with branches and flowers? Oh, reader! if there were less of this delicate concealment of facts--this whispering "Peace, peace," when there is no peace, there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience."
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7. "Farewell to thee! but not farewell To all my fondest thoughts of thee: Within my heart they still shall dwell; And they shall cheer and comfort me."
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8. "I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of."
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9. "When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning."
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10. "I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself – which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue."
- Quote by Anne Brontë