as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEToo 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.
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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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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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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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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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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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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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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All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.
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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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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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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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Your will shall decide your destiny.
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It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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