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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.

Charlotte Bronte

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
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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First Recognise Saw
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
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
I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.
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Angel Love Strong
Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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Day Earth First One
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
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Depressing Difficult Page
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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Amaze Little Men
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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Hearty Hope Kindness
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
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
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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Answers Hand Rochester
Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.
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Home Kindness Rochester
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Degradation Poverty Synonymous

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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