City life Quotes by Charlotte Bronte

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“Descending, I went wandering whither chance might lead, in a still ecstasy of freedom and enjoyment; and I got— I know not how— I got into the heart of city life.”

Charlotte Brontë

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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…

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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…

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“A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though He often…

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“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud…

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“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do…

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“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under…

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If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would…

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation…

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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

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When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were -…

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Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

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“Not one spark of spirit, not one symptom of resistance, would they have shown till the hand of the Corsican bandit had grasped that…

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