as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEYou never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand – they only. Know this at last.
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You transfix me quite.
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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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You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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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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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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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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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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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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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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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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