My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world – the … affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEI think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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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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as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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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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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.
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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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Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.
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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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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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Your will shall decide your destiny.
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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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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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