Quote#God & Faith
I think your piety one of your greatest charms; but then, like all…
Quote byAnne Brontë · 1820–1849
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIII : First weeks of Matrimony; Arthur to Helen.
English (original)
I think your piety one of your greatest charms; but then, like all other good things, it may be carried too far. To my thinking, a woman's religion ought not to lessen her devotion to her earthly lord. She should have enough to purify and etherealise her soul, but not enough to refine away her heart, and raise her above all human sympathies.
— Anne Brontë
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