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Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.

Charlotte Bronte

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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Character Wall Writing
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Answers Done Knock Left
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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Foundation Friendship Sake
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.
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Flower Hand Wish
You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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Entire Own People World
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
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Cost Lover May
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
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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Grief Love Struggle
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.
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Angel Love Strong
Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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Good Left Necessity Night
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
If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!
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Spring Summer Sunshine
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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Children Soul Think
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Genuine Sleep Tact
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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Body Occupation Suffering

Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.

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