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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

Charlotte Bronte

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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Body Occupation Suffering
I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.
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Angel Love Strong
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
You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
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Love Missing Sleep
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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Answers Hand Rochester
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Degradation Poverty Synonymous
It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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Answer Country People Thank
It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Love Obey Wicked
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Affection First Foundation
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Genuine Sleep Tact
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Depressing Difficult Page
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
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Equality Freedom Women
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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Almost Feel Monotony
You transfix me quite.
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Innovation Quite Transfix
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 transfix me quite.
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Life Person Quiet Transmix

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

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