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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.

Charlotte Bronte

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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Morning Spring Summer
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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Answers Hand Rochester
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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Faces Look World
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Affection First Foundation
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
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Age Memories Year
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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First Ignite People Require
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
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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Evil Refined Selfish Strong
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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Half Solitude Unutterable
You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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Entire Own People World
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
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Force Gentleness Potent
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.
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Bird Independent Struggle
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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Almost Feel Monotony
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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Foundation Friendship Sake
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.
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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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