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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.

Charlotte Bronte

I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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Bird Country Ensnare Person
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Depressing Difficult Page
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Kind Read Serious
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
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Alive Birth Cry Weak
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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First Ignite People Require
You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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Entire Own People World
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Love Obey Wicked
I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Angel Love Strong
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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Character Wall Writing
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
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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Hate Lying School
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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Grave Mistake Talk Wish
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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Arms Lamb Shepherd
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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Life Nursing Together
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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

First Happy Misery Suffer
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Feel Life Logic Thinking
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Flower Hand Wish
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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Impossible Natural Think
The idea of seeing the sea – of being near it – watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday – in calm, perhaps in storm – fills and satisfies my mind.
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Ocean Sea Sunrise Sunset
Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.
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Accord Away Push Shake
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Faces Look World
Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd’s can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.
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Eye Men Missing
You transfix me quite.
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Innovation Quite Transfix
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Force Gentleness Potent
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Answers Done Knock Left
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Independence Last Self

That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.

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