My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world – the … affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEBetter to be without logic than without feeling.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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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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Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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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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Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children’s mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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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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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Adversity is a good school.
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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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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 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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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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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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It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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