Anne Bronte
Anne Bronte
Anne Brontëwas an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 January 1820
deprived girl guard herself ignorant lost poor power send watch
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 .
soul spirit
My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring.
heaven safe lasts
Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!
crush eye rose
Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.
god-knows god-knows-best knows
But, God knows best, I concluded.
ends teach dies
The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live....
prayer heart past
Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?
thinking promise important
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
drinking men giving
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity.
stars fall thinking
I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it
doubt painful sincerity
It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.
healing wings soul
My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.
imperfect-world imperfection a-perfect-world
There is always a but in this imperfect world.
player chess chess-players
Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.