Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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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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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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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You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.
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It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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Reader, I married him.
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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.
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Adversity is a good school.
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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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