For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEGood-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.
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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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Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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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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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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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Adversity is a good school.
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After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you.
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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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Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd’s can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.
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It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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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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