Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Tag: Charlotte Bronte
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I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest – a mighty home – not a terror and an abyss. With this creed,
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Look twice before you leap.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.