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Charlotte Brontë
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“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“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!”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's...”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His...”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without...”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a...”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.”
Charlotte Brontë
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“It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially...”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
Charlotte Brontë
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“I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“We were born to strive and endure—you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“I shall be called discontented. I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“You—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.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! —I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God...”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“I am not an angel . . . and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you, and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“It is not violence that best overcomes hate—nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no...”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter—often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter—in the eye.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“I don’t think, sir, you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“I have little left in myself—I must have you. The world may laugh—may call me absurd, selfish—but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you; and besides, the Bible bids us return good for evil.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonised as in that hour left my lips; for...”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered:—and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“remorse is the poison of life.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“I would always rather be happy than dignified”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“You, Jane, I must have you for my own—entirely my own.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“It is always the way of events in this life . . . no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting-place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“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.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“I loved him very much—more than I could trust myself to say—more than words had power to express.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
“And it is you, spirit—with will and energy, and virtue and purity—that I want: not alone your brittle frame.”
Charlotte Brontë
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Jane Eyre
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