Quotations by Anne Bronte

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Born: Monday, January 17, 1820
Died: Monday, May 28, 1849 (29 years old)
Profession: Novelist
Nationality: British

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
- Anne Bronte
(Keywords: Nature, Light, Wind)

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
- Anne Bronte

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.
- Anne Bronte
(Keywords: Heart, Wind)

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
- Anne Bronte
(Keywords: Power, Poor, Self, Will, World)

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
- Anne Bronte
(Keywords: Son, Leading, World)

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
- Anne Bronte
(Keywords: Heart, Eyes, Tears, Weeping)

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
- Anne Bronte
(Keywords: Father, People, Cats, Children, Dogs, Poor)

There is always a "but" in this imperfect world.
- Anne Bronte
(Keywords: World)