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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEIf we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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Adversity is a good school.
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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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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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After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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