You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEAll 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.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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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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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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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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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
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You transfix me quite.
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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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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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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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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.
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I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
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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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