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The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last yes,--and to speak.

Charlotte Bronte

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Charlotte Bronte
Age: 38 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 21
Died: 1855
Died: March 31
Novelist
Poet
Thornton
West Yorkshire
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Ш. Бронте
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Шарлотта Бронте
Sharlotta Bronte
Charles Wellesley
Charlotte Bronte
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Hsia-lo-ti Po-lang-tʻe
Speak
Rise
Stirred
Live
Grief
Sway
Right
Emotion
Claiming
Love
Struggle
Struggling
Full
Reign
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Mastery
Predominate
Lasts
Overcome
Asserting
Last
Overcoming
Vehemence

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