Quotes by Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

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All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
But, God knows best, I concluded. — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, a — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
What business had I to think of one that never thought of me? — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish i — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
We often pity the poor, because they have no leisure to mourn their departed relatives, and necessity obliges them to la — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
The next visit I paid to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March: for, though I had many spare minutes during the da — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a boo — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If t — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, li — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
It is foolish to wish for beauty.  Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others.  If — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and Itrembled lest my ve — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
I am sorry, Miss Grey, you should think it necessary to interfere with Master Bloomfield's amusements; he was very much — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. If "little more than nothi — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You cannot love them; a — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harasse — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
Though riches had charms, poverty had no terrors for an inexperiencedgirl like me. Indeed, to say the truth, there was s — Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey