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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEA depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Reader, I married him.
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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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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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Your will shall decide your destiny.
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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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Remorse is the poison of life.
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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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It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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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 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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Adversity is a good school.
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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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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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