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First Quotes by Charlotte Bronte
- Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
- I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am…
- 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…
- I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.
- Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
- 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…
- 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;…
- No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be…
- 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,…
- I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound…
- Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
- When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large,…
- After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can…
- I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their…
- That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
- He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
- Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding,…
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