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The shadows are as important as the light.
Charlotte Bronte -
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.
Charlotte Bronte
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The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.
Charlotte Bronte -
Make my happiness--I will make yours.
Charlotte Bronte -
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.
Charlotte Bronte -
A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.
Charlotte Bronte -
I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'
Charlotte Bronte -
Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
Charlotte Bronte
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I am no bird and no net ensnares me...
Charlotte Bronte -
I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.
Charlotte Bronte -
It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.
Charlotte Bronte