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Quote by Charlotte Bronte
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one ha

One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow. – Charlotte Bronte

Other quotes by Charlotte Bronte

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

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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. – Charlotte Bronte

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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation. – William Hazlitt

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A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired. – Juvenal

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