# Quote — Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

> It is a troublesome thing this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.

- Author: [Anne Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte.md)
- Book: [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall.md)
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> If you loved as I do, she earnestly replied, you would not have so nearly lost me — these scruples of false delicacy and pride would never thus have troubled you — you would have seen that the greatest worldly distinctions and discrepancies of rank, birth, and fortune are as dust in the balance compared with the unity of accordant thoughts and feelings, and truly loving, sympathising hearts and souls.

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> God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness — and Love; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties — if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fullness of the Godhead shines.

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> Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

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