I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEYou transfix me quite.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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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.
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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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Reader, I married him.
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I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal–as we are!
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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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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Adversity is a good school.
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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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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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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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as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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