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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

Charlotte Bronte

You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
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Love Missing Sleep
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.
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Character Wall Writing
Reader, I married him.
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Classic Married Reader
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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Hearty Hope Kindness
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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Spring Summer Sunshine
It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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Answer Country People Thank
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
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Feel Life Logic Thinking
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
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Cost Lover May
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
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
Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.
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Moon Volcanoes White
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
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Age Memories Year
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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First Recognise Saw

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

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