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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.
I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.
Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.
Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.
His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.
I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!
Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.
[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.
I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.
I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.
On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.
Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.
Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.
I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.