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

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
Your will shall decide your destiny.
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Decide Destiny Reason Result
Reader, I married him.
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Classic Married Reader
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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First Ignite People Require
I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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Bird Country Ensnare Person
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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Hearty Hope Kindness
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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First Recognise Saw
Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Flirt Flirty Sex Trade
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
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
You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.
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Flesh Husband Love Thing
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
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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Morning Spring Summer
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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Home Kindness Rochester
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
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble

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

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