Adversity is a good school.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEYou — 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.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Remorse is the poison of life.
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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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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.
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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 am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand – they only. Know this at last.
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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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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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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Adversity is a good school.
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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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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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