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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTESuch is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd’s can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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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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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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I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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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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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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Adversity is a good school.
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It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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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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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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You transfix me quite.
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as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE