Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
CHARLOTTE BRONTEI seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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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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It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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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 your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
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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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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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You transfix me quite.
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Adversity is a good school.
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I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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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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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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Remorse is the poison of life.
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I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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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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