Quote by Charlotte Bronte
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. – Charlotte Bronte

Other quotes by Charlotte Bronte

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

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respect
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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. – Charlotte Bronte

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Revenge
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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. – Vita Sackville-West

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How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps! – Mark Twain, letter to William Dean Howells, 1887 August 22nd

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. – Voltaire

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I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose. – Mary Todd Lincoln

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Butterflies… not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. – Elizabeth Goudge

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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. – Ogden Nash

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942

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