It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.


Jane Eyre (1847)

Charlotte Brontë Quotes

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given...

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given...

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given...

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given...