Logo
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

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

Category:
God
Author
Charlotte Bronte
Read Quote

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. – Charlotte Bronte

Category:
Friendship
Author
Charlotte Bronte
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Inheritance
category

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Category:
Inheritance

Nothing succeeds like ones own successor. – Clarence H. Hincks

Category:
Inheritance

Its going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it. – Kin Hubbard

Category:
Inheritance

A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. – Bible

Category:
Inheritance

Random Quotes

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things. – Jacques Maritain

Category:
Courage

Its lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. – Muhammad Ali

Category:
Faith

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. – George Washington

Category:
Happiness

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage. – John Boehner

Category:
Marriage