Such 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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTECrying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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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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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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The idea of seeing the sea – of being near it – watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday – in calm, perhaps in storm – fills and satisfies my mind.
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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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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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You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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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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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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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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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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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
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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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