It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEWhat you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Remorse is the poison of life.
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You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
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The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,–and to speak.
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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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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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You transfix me quite.
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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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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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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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Adversity is a good school.
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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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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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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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