A Quote by Anne Bronte

My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.

Anne Bronte

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Anne Bronte
British - Novelist
January 17, 1820 - May 28, 1849

I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall bethe happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that youshould. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust thatwhat is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moonwhatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, Iwill love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself byhypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truthwith me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.

Winston Churchill

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Harry Emerson Fosdick

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

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Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

Bob Dylan

The universe will fill your cup... if you carry a big cup, a little cup, or a thimble!

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A totally honest organization would never hide or disguise actions or stonewall.

Brian Martin

Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.

Bruno Schulz

Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.