Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

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God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and Love; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fullness of the Godhead shines.

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What are their thoughts to you or me, so long as we are satisfied with ourselves - and each other.

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I sometimes think she has no feeling at all; and then I go on till she cries - and that satisfies me.

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If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

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

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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

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I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.

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It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.

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You may have as many words as you please, – only I can't stay to hear them.

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I trust she may yet be happy; but, if she is, it will be entirely the reward of her own goodness of heart; for had she chosen to consider herself the victim of fate, or of her mother's worldly wisdom, she might have been thoroughly miserable; and if, for duty's sake, she had not made every effort to love her husband, she would, doubtless, have hated him to the end of her days.

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Mamma does all she can,' said she, 'to make me feel myself a burden and incumbrance to the family, and the most ungrateful, selfish, and undutiful daughter that ever was born;

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The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun; and though I might not cherish and watch my child's unfolding intellect, he would be snatched away from all the suffering and sins of earth; and my understanding tells me this would be no great evil; but my heart shrinks from the contemplation of such a possibility, and whispers I could not bear to see him die.

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When I spend my money I like to enjoy the full value of it.

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Revenge! No - what good would that do? - it would make him no better, and me no happier

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All novels are, or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.

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In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.

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Adoration isn't love. I adore Annabella, but I don't love her; and I love thee, Milicent, but I don't adore thee.

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She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.

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I have no cause to fear; and if they scorn me as a victim of their guilt, I can pity their folly and despise their scorn.

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It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.

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If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

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"And you thought to rob me of my son too, and bring him up to be a dirty Yankee tradesman, or a low, beggarly painter?"
"Yes, to obviate his becoming such a gentleman as his father."

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But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.

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Since I love him so much, I can easily forgive him for loving himself

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It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble the foe.

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