Love was all a thin illusion;
Joy, but the desert's flying stream;
And, glancing back on long delusion,
My memory grasps a hollow dream.
(Frances)
More Quotes from Charlotte Bronte:
Nomy will shall yet controlThy will, so high and free,
And love shall tame that haughty soul
Yestenderest love for me.
Charlotte Bronte
If still the paths of lore she follow,
'Twill be with tired and goaded will;
She'll only toil, the aching hollow,
The joyless blank of life to fill.
Charlotte Bronte
Those thoughts recur to early love,
Or what he love would name,
Though haply Gilbert's secret deeds
Might other title claim.
Charlotte Bronte
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
But this I know 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. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.
Charlotte Brontë
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Charlotte Bronte
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