I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.
Charlotte Brontë
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
EMILY BRONTE I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
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CATHERINE LOWELL I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. A...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Dogs are not allowed to choose where they live; my fate would be decided by people.
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STEVE CARELL It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not con...
GALILEO GALILEI I believe that God is leading me to uphold the laws in Alabama and guide its policies,
ROY MOORE It would be ill of me to comment on a letter that I haven't seen.
TONY SANCHEZ It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, bu...
BILLY BRAGG I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
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TERRY PRATCHETT Where a man runs to another can walk to
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DOUGLAS ADAMS I would find it very strange to be on the road without my family. It's really second nature to me.
KASEY CHAMBERS I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
BEN SHAHN That will probably be it for me, ... I'm going to go out and start another business of my own. That'...
BILL RANCIC These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them...
MERCEDES LACKEY There is no moment of my life when you are not a part of me; you hold my heart; you guard my soul; ...
ROBERT SEXTON Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free...
CHIEF JOSEPH I definitely want to return to Cameroon. Cameroon is home to me. If my dad were to choose me as his ...
CAMILLE MOUTE My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
WILMA RUDOLPH I would never stay under circumstances where I felt I was a figurehead and might look good in your t...
JERRY WEST Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI If i was to choose life, life would be my choice. If i was to choose death, i would probably already...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I am blown away that my God, who could do this all by Himself, would choose to let me be a little pa...
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JEROME K. JEROME The guide does not walk your path.
RODNEY LOVELL When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
SOTONYE ANGA When I started fundraising like me and leading like me, that's when I really started to shine an...
PAYAL KADAKIA If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be h...
HANNA ROSIN I would bet Charlotte -- but I've been saying Charlotte for a year now!.
ALAN BENDER I state for the record that I am PRO CHOICE. No government, no man, no neighbour of mine is going to...
SHIRLEY MANSON I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in e...
SIMONE ELKELES So you’re telling me it’s okay to make these promises, place rings on each other’s fingers, ma...
KAT T. MASEN I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.
JANDY NELSON I would love to come back if they want me back. But if they choose to go in another direction, I und...
DAMIONE LEWIS May your star guide you to walk in the right path.
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LUIS ARIEL ROMERO JR. And one day, as she was buried deep in her thoughts, she heard a still small voice ask her
"If you c...
HENNA SOHAIL The thirst we shared for one another made it clear that the distraction would only come from depriva...
SHAWN KIRSTEN MARAVEL A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as ...
AVI For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various character...
ANNE TYLER I can't go to the park, see? So I create my own park at Paradisal Decor, my own nature, my own space...
TOMMY POLO Buddha guides my thoughts, but it's up to me to guide my life.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.
JODI PICOULT It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another...
BHAGAVAD GITA It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, ...
BHAGAVAD GITA Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me an...
ALBERT CAMUS Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not
lead. Walk beside me an...
ALBERT CAMUS Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of anoth...
LAO TZU Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, a...
ALBERT CAMUS Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside ...
ALBERT CAMUS Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside ...
ALBERT CAMUS Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside ...
UNKNOWN It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured...
CLIFFORD D. SIMAK Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my con...
JERRY WEST (1) I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. (2) I am of the nature to...
THICH NHAT HANH I chose to go on my own accord, my own thoughts, and thought it would be beneficial for me to go out...
JOSH GORDON I never in my wildest dreams thought I would get even one play at Indiana, let alone 25 years later,...
STEVE ALFORD The night is my companion...solitude my guide....and I would be the one to hold you down, kiss you s...
SARAH MCLACHLAN You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you...
J. MARTIN KOHE Inside me, there is an organ more important than my heart. Although you can't see it, I feel it goin...
HIDEAKI SORACHI I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
W...
ALBERT CAMUS Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfa...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wond...
CHELSEA CLINTON Already, this little-walked gigantic trail through my country’s Western wilderness held in my mind...
ASPEN MATIS I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me...
T. MOUNTEBANK I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I a...
JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants,...
BERTRAND DE JOUVENEL We have aspirations that guide us, but only we choose the path to decide us.
SARA STRAIN I enjoy clothes. My mother tells me how, even as a kid, I used to choose my own clothes. I have a fe...
DULQUER SALMAAN This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to l...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like '...
NATALIE MARTINEZ Today, many will choose to live free of conditions and rules governing their own happiness. Why not ...
STEVE MARABOLI I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.
THIA MEGIA Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor;...
WILLIAM TEMPLE SR. I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the worl...
FRANCES HARDINGE I don't work with a stylist, I don't work with a glam squad to get me together for the red c...
DITA VON TEESE My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Should God create another Eve, and I
Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee
Would never from...
JOHN MILTON I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
LADY GAGA
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is a matter which depends fully as much on the state
of t...
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The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sea...
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Jane Eyre
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"
Reader, I forgave him ...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long ti...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Quando uma mulher sente desprezo pelo seu marido, o casamento passa a ser uma escravidão, e contra ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Detesto l’ardire, l’ardire che appartiene all’arrogante e all’insensibile, ma amo l’audaci...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I romanzieri non dovrebbero mai consentire a se stessi di stancarsi dell’indagine della vita reale...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He that is low need fear no fall.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë ...there were two gentleman seated by it talking in French;impossible to follow their rapid utteranc...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savor the acrid bit...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . still we are none of us perfect . . .
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I gave, at first, attention close;
Then interest warm ensued;
From interest, as improvem...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Qué terrible esfuerzo de dejar aquello que queremos
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Un hombre no puede olvidar la devoción que sentía por una mujer así, no debe ser, no puede ser
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Pero cuando el dolor termina el recuerdo que queda a veces se transforma en placer
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I verily believe all that is desirable on earth--wealth, reputation, love--will for ever to you be t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every ma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion coo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Human beings -- human children especially -- seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a pow...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructur...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—Nov...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were rise...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this du...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error....
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate -...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë All men must die.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë