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Charlotte Bronte Inspirational Quotes (208)

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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
Charlotte Bronte
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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!
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It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
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My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler breathings of April the nights and mornings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins we could now endure the play-hour passed in the garden.
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In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth and home would be cold indeed, without the clear, cheering gleam of intellect.
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I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.
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I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
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Adversity is a good school.
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Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.
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Conventionality is not morality.
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Monsieur, sit down listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you I would not trouble your faith you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I.
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Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.
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I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.
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I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
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If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.
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I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.
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If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.
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After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.
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Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.
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Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
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You transfix me quite.
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Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.
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You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!
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Shake me off, then, sir--push me away for I'll not leave you of my own accord.
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