36 quotes
English novelist and poet (1818–1848)
“... I love him... not because he's handsome... but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same...”
"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"
on Love
"She burned too bright for this world."
on Life
"No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk"
on Faith
"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide."
on Philosophy
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading it vexes me to choose another guide."
"No coward soul is mine,No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:I see heaven's glories shine,And faith shines equal, arming me from fear"
"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them."
on Power
"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone."
on Time
"If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results."
on Wisdom
"The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one."
"A good heart will help you to a bonny face my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly."
"I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?"
"As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."
on Nature
"Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us."
on Mental Health
"... You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them?"
on Courage
"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o' clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone."
on Productivity
"If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone."
