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"St. John dresses well. He is a handsome man: tall, fair, with blue eyes, and a Grecian profile." (Aside) "Damn him" (To me) "Did you like him, Jane?"
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 agonized as in that hour left my lips;…
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."
“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
“I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.”
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
"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!"…
This book is not worth it. I read it and it has horrible grammar. I would know as a mom reading is to myself. it's not the best book.I think it's just not the greatest.
“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."
“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! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have…
"Reader, I married him."
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"I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest--blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate…
Charlotte Bronte on morals: "I care for myself....Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they;…
Charlotte Bronte on experience: "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…
Charlotte Bronte on feminism: "Women are suppose 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; they suffer from too rigid a…
Charlotte Bronte on hate: "It is not violence that best overcomes hate- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury....Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you."
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
"Remorse is the poison of life."