You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEI am no bird and no net ensnares me
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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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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I have no wish to talk nonsense.” “If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
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I have no wish to talk nonsense.” “If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
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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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I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.
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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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Remorse is the poison of life.
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I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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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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Your will shall decide your destiny.
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All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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