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.

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You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

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DWIGHT W. HAYES

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CHARLOTTE BRONTë

[Charlotte Brontë] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making thei...
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CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE

Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of br...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU"

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE FE + C is steel. U + I is love.
JOAN COLLEEN R. KATIPUNAN

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
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PHILIP T. M.

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JACKSON PEARCE

what did you think would happen—best case? She’ll forget about you when you return to Caliban, y...
JACKSON PEARCE

She’s forgotten me. It’s over. I don’t want to see her again, and now I’ll have to. I won’...
JACKSON PEARCE

I think we’re always looking for new pieces,” Viola says quietly.

What?
...
JACKSON PEARCE Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thou...
JOSHUA SYLVESTER When you start to realize: you are something that is precious to me, "Debug" me as you like; and whe...
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I accept you as you are, and I will always hold you close in my heart. I will walk beside you foreve...
SHERRILYN KENYON

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
KANYE WEST

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. MORGAN

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
THOMAS CARLYLE You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN ...You bring out the truth in me, Callista, and make me whole. I need you to set me free and give me...
CATHERINE LAROCHE Even after seeing you a thousand times
Why is there this ache within my heart?
AVIJEET DAS

and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you
TAYLOR SWIFT The world will always give you as much love as you are willing to accept.
JIM GENOVESE

I tell you I must go! Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Aren't I enough for you?' she asked.
'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman i...
D.H. LAWRENCE This is too much reality for a Friday.
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REBECCA YARROS

you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I al...
THOMAS HARDY

I love you more than my own skin.
FRIDA KAHLO

Noah, wherever you are and whenever you read this, I love you. I
love you deeply, my husband. ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. ...
AYN RAND As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
KAJOL As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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OLD SCOTCH SAYING

Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being he...
WILLIAM ADAMS

I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed,...
QUINCY JONES

The single biggest thing I’ve done to improve my relationship with others, was to improve the rela...
AKIROQ BROST

And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Secret Number One: Dump the Fucking Assholes. Dump 'em! There are people in your life who make you f...
CLINTON KELLY, I HATE EVERYONE, EXCEPT YOU This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to...
JAMES LECESNE

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.
LAWRENCE KASDAN

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

I love you. It’s not a weight you must carry around. I love you. It’s not a box that holds you i...
UNKNOWN When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of...
NATHAN PARSONS

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as ...
ARIANA GRANDE

Take care. If you do not speak – I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. Sen...
ELIZABETH GASKELL When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And...
MALESE JOW “Do as I say, not as I do! You are my parent, guardian, and mentor too, I love you, need you and w...
ROSS ELDER

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Voice of Christ: My child, this is the disposition which you should have if you wish to walk wit...
THOMAS à KEMPIS

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell ...
GEORGE M. COHAN When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
RALPH HALL I love you if you love me.
ROBERTO CAVALLI Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.
MAHESH BABU In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER

I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes m...
LEA MICHELE As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you...
D. MORGENSTERN

I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!
REBECCA MCKINSEY

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you sp...
GEORGE M. COHAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the s...
ANA CASTILLO

Thank you God for always guiding me and holding my hand. I feel secure in the knowledge that you are...
LATIKA TEOTIA

I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tigh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
JOHN KEATS

I love you," she said wretchedly. “And if I were well, no power on earth could keep me away from y...
LISA KLEYPAS

I love you Daddy, not because you always loved my, because you are always living inside of me as an ...
DEBASISH MRIDHA

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SAMANTHA YOUNG

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GRAEME SIMSION

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MICHELLE FAIRLEY You broke my heart.
You broke my.
You broke.
You.
And me.
ALI LAND Ash, you’re my sister and I love you. But some days you can be about as bright as a black hole.
KARSTEN KNIGHT

I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But (as you know...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's always a side of me that goes, 'I'm just a nerd.' I never look at myself and...
HEATHER GRAHAM

It's only fair to warn you that you sealed your fate tonight. When you knew you were in trouble, you...
PATRICIA BRIGGS

Do you love me as the person that I am now, or do you love me as the person I used to be?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would d...
DABNEY COLEMAN

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either re...
RICHARD K. MORGAN "Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just a...
CULT OF DONE

I love you more than my own skin and even though you don’t love me the same way, you love me anywa...
FRIDA KAHLO

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY You could have someone stand beside you and experience a whole other reality at the very same time l...
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Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."

"I ask why? I must have a reason. In all re...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its do...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The word book acted as a transient stimulus
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Cheerfulness, it would appear,
is a matter which depends fully as much on the state
of t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Evening Solace

The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sea...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither so...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeeme...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a n...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I deligh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and s...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And what is hell? Can you tell me that?”
“A pit full of fire.”
“And should you lik...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird, no net ensnares me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of pe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you like him much?'
I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so v...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly. "Oh, comply!" it said. "Think of hi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of al...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had bee...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a simil...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë (...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me wh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I be...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning gra...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Now, I've another errand for you,' said my untiring master; "you must away to my room again. What a ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.'

'Station! Station!-- y...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have larg...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë What the deuce is to do now?
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred there...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idio...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?
CHARLOTTE BRONTë His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am a free human being with an independent will."
Jane Eyre
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You transfix me quite.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people we...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, squa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will, in few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended noti...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Those who live in retirement, whose lives have fallen amid the seclusion of schools or of other wall...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Have you heard from his lordship lately?” I asked.

“Oh no! About six months ago I had...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for y...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë 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...
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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

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.

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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.

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