All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEYouth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Your will shall decide your destiny.
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
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My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world – the … affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.
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The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
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Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before ‘the writing on the wall’ and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd’s can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.
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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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You transfix me quite.
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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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