Quote by Charlotte Bronte
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religio

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. – Charlotte Bronte

Other quotes by Charlotte Bronte

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. – Charlotte Bronte

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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. – Charlotte Bronte

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Dreams
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You had no right to be born for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other persons strength. – Charlotte Bronte

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strength
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I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. – June Jordan

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Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood. – Anthony Collins

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House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, its not good at all. – Chris Lowe

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I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport. – Todd Barry

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