you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you more than I can say; but I’ll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: and with this needle of repartee I’ll keep you from the edge of the gulf too; and, moreover, maintain by its pungent aid that distance between you and myself most conducive to our real mutual advantage.

Charlotte Bronte

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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Charlotte Bronte

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The shadows are as important as the light.

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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.

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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

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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.

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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

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God did not give me my life to throw it away.

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Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

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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.

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Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

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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

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Better to be without logic than without feeling.

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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.

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To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.

Charlotte Bronte

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

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Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

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I would always rather be happy than dignified.

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