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!
CHARLOTTE BRONTEYou transfix me quite.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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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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Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.
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Reader, I married him.
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I have no wish to talk nonsense.” “If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
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Adversity is a good school.
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You transfix me quite.
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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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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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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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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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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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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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