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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
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Loneliness Lonely Single
Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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Good Left Necessity Night
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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Hearty Hope Kindness
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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Kind Read Serious
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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Body Occupation Suffering
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?
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Arms Lamb Shepherd
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
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Alive Birth Cry Weak
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Genuine Sleep Tact
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.
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Fascinate Quality Shape
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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Amaze Little Men
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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Almost Feel Monotony
Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.
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Accord Away Push Shake
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Force Gentleness Potent
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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Hate Lying School
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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Reason Strikes Struck
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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Flesh Husband Love Thing
It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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Answer Country People Thank
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
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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Blame Disconnect Help Pain
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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Answers Hand Rochester
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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First Ignite People Require
You transfix me quite.
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Life Person Quiet Transmix
Remorse is the poison of life.
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Poison Regret Remorse
The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.
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Encouragement Heart Night
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
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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Ocean Sea Sunrise Sunset

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

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