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#1

“What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#2

“Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: judging

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#4

“The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#5

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: freedom

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#6

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#7

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#8

“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.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: conscience, innocence

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#9

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

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#10

“It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

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#11

“I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#12

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

tags: business, love

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#13

“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#14

“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: change, life

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#15

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: character, misattributed, nobility

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#16

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

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#17

“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#18

“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

tags: emotions, heart, irrationality, romanticism

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#19

“Everything is hard before it is easy”
― Goethe J.W.

tags: motivational

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#20

“Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.”
― Goethe, Schiller, Hebel, et al

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#21

“Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#22

“Was ich weiß, kann jeder wissen. Mein Herz hab' ich allein.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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#23

“Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso

tags: love

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#24

“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: character, talent

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#25

“The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#26

“Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#27

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: beauty, lonliness, solitude

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#28

“And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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#29

“Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#30

“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Selected Poetry

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#31

“For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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