Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.
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I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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Who has words at the right moment?
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.
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Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
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Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
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Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.
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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
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Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.