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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEPoverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Reader, I married him.
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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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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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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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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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If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!
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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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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,–and to speak.
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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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