I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal–as we are!
CHARLOTTE BRONTEThat to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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You transfix me quite.
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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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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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Your will shall decide your destiny.
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Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children’s mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!
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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 mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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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 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 think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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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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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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