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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEHe was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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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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I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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You transfix me quite.
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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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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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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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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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He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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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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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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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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Adversity is a good school.
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