What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
CHARLOTTE BRONTETact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.
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Adversity is a good school.
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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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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I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand – they only. Know this at last.
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Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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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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Reader, I married him.
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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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I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.
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They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.
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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.
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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.” “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.
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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.
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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
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Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.
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I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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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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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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