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 BRONTEIt would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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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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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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I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.
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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
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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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I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
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You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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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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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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Your will shall decide your destiny.
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Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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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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Adversity is a good school.
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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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