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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEIf he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.
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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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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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I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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Remorse is the poison of life.
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It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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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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You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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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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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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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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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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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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