I am no bird and no net ensnares me
CHARLOTTE BRONTEOh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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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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You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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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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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Adversity is a good school.
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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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Reader, I married him.
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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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You transfix me quite.
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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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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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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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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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