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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

Charlotte Bronte

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Answers Done Knock Left
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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Humanity Key Three
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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Happiness Sound World
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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Ocean Sea Sunrise Sunset
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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Hearty Hope Kindness
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Feel Life Logic Thinking
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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Impossible Natural Think
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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Body Occupation Suffering
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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Flesh Husband Love Thing
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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Answers Hand Rochester
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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Amaze Little Men
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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Brother Home Humble
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
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Kind Read Serious
I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal–as we are!
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Addresses Feet Talk
Jane Eyre “I desired more…than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn’t help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
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Blame Disconnect Help Pain

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