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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Charlotte Bronte

Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.
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Humanity Keys Three
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Answers Done Knock Left
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Independence Last Self
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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Impossible Natural Think
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Genuine Sleep Tact
It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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Answer Country People Thank
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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Hearty Hope Kindness
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Degradation Poverty Synonymous
Too 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.
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Character Wall Writing
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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Circumstance Give Self Soul
If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!
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Spring Summer Sunshine
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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Flesh Husband Love Thing
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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Arm Lamb Shepherds
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.
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Body Occupation Suffering
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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Answers Hand Rochester

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