Adversity is a good school.
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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They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.
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Reader, I married him.
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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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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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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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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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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
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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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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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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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You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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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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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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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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You transfix me quite.
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