Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

"Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good."
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"Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good."
Charlotte Brontë Villette
"Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine."
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
"I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes."
Charlotte Brontë 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 infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence."
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
"No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by."
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
"“All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”"
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
"And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame."
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
"I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing."
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive."
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
Charlotte Brontë
"Look twice before you leap."
Charlotte Brontë
"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."
Charlotte Brontë
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
Charlotte Brontë
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
Charlotte Brontë
"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."
Charlotte Brontë
"I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will."
Charlotte Brontë
"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."
Charlotte Brontë
"I feel monotony and death to be almost the same."
Charlotte Brontë
"You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength."
Charlotte Brontë
"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."
Charlotte Brontë
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