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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

Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Flirt Flirty Sex Trade
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
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
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
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Happiness Sound World
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Feel Life Logic Thinking
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
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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Life Nursing Together
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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Humanity Key Three
Reader, I married him.
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Classic Married Reader
It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Love Obey Wicked
It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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Answer Country People Thank
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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Circumstance Give Self Soul
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Degradation Poverty Synonymous
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
Your will shall decide your destiny.
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Decide Destiny Reason Result

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