Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEAdversity is a good school.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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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.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.
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Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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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 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.
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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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Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.” “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
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Adversity is a good school.
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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
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Reader, I married him.
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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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