Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEAdversity is a good school.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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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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as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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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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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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He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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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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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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You transfix me quite.
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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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