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It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.

Charlotte Bronte

Soul, Suffering, Body

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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.

Charlotte Bronte

Believe, Trouble, Christ

"Villette". Book by Charlotte Bronte, Chapter XXXVI: The Apple of Discord, 1853.

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I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility.

Charlotte Bronte

Pope, Infallibility, Boast

Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.842, Everyman's Library

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This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring.

Charlotte Bronte

Spring, Winter, Years

Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.357, Everyman's Library

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My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.

Charlotte Bronte

Wise, Son, Night

Charlotte Bronte (2016). “The Professor”, p.117, Charlotte Bronte

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They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.

Charlotte Bronte

Should Have, Suffering, Firsts

Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.237, Everyman's Library

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God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.

Charlotte Bronte

Believe, Optimistic, Heart

Charlotte Bronte (2006). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

Charlotte Bronte

Love, Romantic, Self

Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Grade 7: Jane Eyre”, p.80, Orient Blackswan

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On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

Charlotte Bronte

Country, Patriotism, World

Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Professor”, p.211, Trajectory Inc

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All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

Charlotte Bronte

Memories, Flower, Mean

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.90, Penguin

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Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

Charlotte Bronte

Association, Amalgamation, Grows

1853 Villette, ch.25.

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I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto.

Charlotte Bronte

Giving, Done, Give Me Strength

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.364, Penguin

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There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

Charlotte Bronte

Stranger, Reason, Absurd

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The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

Charlotte Bronte

Sight, Cities, Sound

Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.49, Xist Publishing

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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Charlotte Bronte

Christian, Consistency, Firsts

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.32, Penguin

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If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Campbell, Wordsworth and Southey. Now Ellen don't be startled at the names of Shakespeare, and Byron. Both these were great Men and their works are like themselves, You will know how to chuse the good and avoid the evil, the finest
passages are always the purest, the bad are invariably revolting you will never wish to read them over twice.

Charlotte Bronte

Men, Names, Evil

"Charlotte Bronte: Selected Letters". Book edited by Margaret Smith and Janet Gezari, September 9, 2010.

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If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Charlotte Bronte

Nature, Majority, Different

Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.66, Variocity

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I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Charlotte Bronte

Please Me, Belief, Easy

Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.267, Everyman's Library

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To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)

Charlotte Bronte

Eye, Heart, Character

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.213, Penguin

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I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.

Charlotte Bronte

Strong, Views, Soul

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

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The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.

Charlotte Bronte

Practice, Feelings, Doe

Emily Bronte, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë (1851). “Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey: In Two Volumes”, p.16

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Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?

Charlotte Bronte

Want, Hollowness, Given

Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.267, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would you give to be ME?' she inquired. 'Not a bad sixpence - strange as it may sound', I replied. 'You are but a poor creature.' 'You don't think so in your heart.' 'No; for in my heart you have not the outline of a place: I only occasionally turn you over in my brain.

Charlotte Bronte

Heart, Thinking, Giving

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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

Charlotte Bronte

Answers, He Left Me, Left

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.333, Penguin

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A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.

Charlotte Bronte

Eyelashes, Long, Movement

Charlotte Bronte, K. M. Weiland (2014). “Jane Eyre”, p.76, "F+W Media, Inc."

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Born: April 21, 1816
Died: March 31, 1855
Occupation: Novelist
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