The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEOh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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You transfix me quite.
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You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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I have no wish to talk nonsense.” “If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
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Adversity is a good school.
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I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
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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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No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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Reader, I married him.
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Your will shall decide your destiny.
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Remorse is the poison of life.
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