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as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

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.
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Body Occupation Suffering
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
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Loneliness Lonely Single
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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Hearty Hope Kindness
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Answers Done Knock Left
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Force Gentleness Potent
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
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
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
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
Your will shall decide your destiny.
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Decide Destiny Reason Result
Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.” “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
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Bird Independent Struggle
You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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Entire Own People World
You transfix me quite.
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Life Person Quiet Transmix
Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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Good Left Necessity Night
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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Blame Disconnect Help Pain
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Genuine Sleep Tact
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.
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Fascinate Quality Shape
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
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Happiness Sound World
It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Love Obey Wicked
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.
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Flower Hand Wish
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 Keys Three
Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Flirt Flirty Sex Trade
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
Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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Day Earth First One
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Affection First Foundation
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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Answers Hand Rochester
I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand – they only. Know this at last.
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Hand Heart Independence

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