I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep... - Charlotte Bronte
"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."
"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."
"To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment."
"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."