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.
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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Adversity is a good school.
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I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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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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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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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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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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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!
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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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You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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Remorse is the poison of life.
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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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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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE