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- If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be…
- Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and…
- The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above…
- But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
- 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…
- It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman…
- I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an…
- 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…
- It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all…
- Do you like him much?' I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he…
- Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you…
- It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which…
- I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling,…
- 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…
- It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend…
- All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from…
- Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for…
- There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such…
- Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
- I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor…
- Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none
- I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant;…
- As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would…
- Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may…
- I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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