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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEPoverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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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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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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I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.
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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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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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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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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
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It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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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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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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