The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
CHARLOTTE BRONTERemorse is the poison of life.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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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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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!
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Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children’s mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!
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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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Adversity is a good school.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Remorse is the poison of life.
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After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you.
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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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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
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Adversity is a good school.
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I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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