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 BRONTEFor I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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Remorse is the poison of life.
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I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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You transfix me quite.
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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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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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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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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Your will shall decide your destiny.
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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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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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It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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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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