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You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Feel Life Logic Thinking
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Degradation Poverty Synonymous
You transfix me quite.
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Life Person Quiet Transmix
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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First Recognise Saw
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.
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Flower Hand Wish
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Genuine Sleep Tact
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Force Gentleness Potent
Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children’s mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!
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Children Soul Think
It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Love Obey Wicked
The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,–and to speak.
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Grief Love Struggle
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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Circumstance Give Self Soul
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Affection First Foundation
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
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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Foundation Friendship Sake
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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Body Occupation Suffering
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.
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Evil Refined Selfish Strong
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
Jane Eyre “I desired more…than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn’t help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
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Blame Disconnect Help Pain
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Depressing Difficult Page
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
It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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Answer Country People Thank
Reader, I married him.
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Classic Married Reader
Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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Good Left Necessity Night
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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Life Nursing Together
Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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Fairy Said Whispering
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
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should – so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.
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Reason Strikes Struck

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

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