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“A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#People #Wicked #Desire
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“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Heartbreak #Saying Goodbye #Thinking
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“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Enemy
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“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Inspirational #Motivational #Moving Forward
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“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Struggle #Independent #Bird
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“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Happiness #Feelings #Comfort
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“He made me love him without looking at me.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Made
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“Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Love #Dream #Dare
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“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Love #Integrity #Women
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“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Life #Forgiveness #Hate
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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Inspirational #Life #Inspiring
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“I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Writing #Helping
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“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Single #Lonely #Loneliness
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“I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Selfish #Laughing #Soul
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“When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Reason #Should #Strikes
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“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Possibility #Walks
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“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Life #Thinking #Feelings
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“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Break Up #Heartbroken #Heart
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“Remorse is the poison of life.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Regret #Poison #Remorse
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“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Life #Success #Expectations
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“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Personality #Matter #States
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“God did not give me my life to throw it away.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Giving
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“The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Men #Worry #Mind
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“Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Fashion #Distance #Heart
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“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Action #Tranquility #Vain
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“But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Lying #Years #Creative
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“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Brother #Exercise #Men
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“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Fighting #Feminism #Battle
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“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 Bronte
#Broken Heart #Dream #Silence
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“Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
#Heart #Broken #Littles
