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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEJane 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.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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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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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!
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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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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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You transfix me quite.
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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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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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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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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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Remorse is the poison of life.
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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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