Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.Charlotte Bronte
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
Charlotte Bronte
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
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We take from life one little share,
And say that this shall be
A space, redeemed from toil and care,
From tears and sadness free.
Charlotte Bronte
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.
Charlotte Brontë
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