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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Charlotte Bronte

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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Eye Men Missing
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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Arm Lamb Shepherds
Reader, I married him.
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Classic Married Reader
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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Fate Forever Heart
Your will shall decide your destiny.
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Decide Destiny Reason Result
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Independence Last Self
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Affection First Foundation
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Depressing Difficult Page
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
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Loneliness Lonely Single
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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Arms Lamb Shepherd
It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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Answer Country People Thank
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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Life Nursing Together
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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First Recognise Saw
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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First Happy Misery Suffer
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Force Gentleness Potent

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