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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

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Independence Last Self
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
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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Arm Lamb Shepherds
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
You transfix me quite.
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Life Person Quiet Transmix
My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world – the … affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.
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Brother Home Humble
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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First Ignite People Require
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Feel Life Logic Thinking
Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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Good Left Necessity Night
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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Impossible Natural Think
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
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
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Affection First Foundation
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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Character Wall Writing
I have no wish to talk nonsense.” “If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
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Grave Mistake Talk Wish
They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.
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First Happy Misery Suffer

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