Charlotte Bronte Quotes

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Charlotte Bronte

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• Egotism
• Infatuation

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• The good part about this is you get to see what type of character you have as a team.

  

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• Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course.

  

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• The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.

  

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• I was watching Maury Povich the other day. He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight.

  

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• To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.

  

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• A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.

  

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• Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

  

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• We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.

  

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• O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

  

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• At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

  

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• I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.

  

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• In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

  

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• We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

  

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• True silence is the speech of lovers.

  

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• I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.

  

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• The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

  

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• There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Lovers
  • Egotism
  • Infatuation