When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavored to bring back with a strict hand such as had been straying through imagination's boundless and trackless waste, into the safe fold of common sense.


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This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are aba...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Who told you I was called Carl David?" "A little bird, Monsieur." "Does it fly from me to you? Then ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeli...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shephe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me tha...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose vo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you can...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"

Reader, I forgave him ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
It would take a great deal to crush me
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upw...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long ti...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Quando uma mulher sente desprezo pelo seu marido, o casamento passa a ser uma escravidão, e contra ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Detesto l’ardire, l’ardire che appartiene all’arrogante e all’insensibile, ma amo l’audaci...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I romanzieri non dovrebbero mai consentire a se stessi di stancarsi dell’indagine della vita reale...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
He that is low need fear no fall.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
...there were two gentleman seated by it talking in French;impossible to follow their rapid utteranc...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
. . . for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savor the acrid bit...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
. . . still we are none of us perfect . . .
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I gave, at first, attention close;
Then interest warm ensued;
From interest, as improvem...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Qué terrible esfuerzo de dejar aquello que queremos
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Un hombre no puede olvidar la devoción que sentía por una mujer así, no debe ser, no puede ser
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
-Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Pero cuando el dolor termina el recuerdo que queda a veces se transforma en placer
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I verily believe all that is desirable on earth--wealth, reputation, love--will for ever to you be t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every ma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion coo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Human beings -- human children especially -- seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a pow...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructur...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—Nov...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were rise...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this du...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error....
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate -...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
All men must die.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
You are human and fallible.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë