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!
CHARLOTTE BRONTEReader, I married him.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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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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I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.
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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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as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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You transfix me quite.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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Adversity is a good school.
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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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The idea of seeing the sea – of being near it – watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday – in calm, perhaps in storm – fills and satisfies my mind.
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Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.
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I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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