Reader, I married him.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEJane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.” “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
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I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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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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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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You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
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It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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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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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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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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