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Adversity is a good school.

Charlotte Bronte

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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Addresses Feet Talk
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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Grave Mistake Quiet Wish
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Affection First Foundation
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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Answer Country People Thank
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
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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First Ignite People Require
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
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
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.
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Humanity Key Three
Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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Good Left Necessity Night
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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Arm Lamb Shepherds
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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Faces Look World
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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Grave Mistake Talk Wish

Adversity is a good school.

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