If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEConventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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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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You transfix me quite.
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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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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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Your will shall decide your destiny.
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There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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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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Reader, I married him.
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For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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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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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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