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Own Quotes by Charlotte Bronte
- 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…
- If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
- Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and…
- 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…
- Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
- Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.
- You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain…
- 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…
- Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general…
- 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,…
- You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.
- ... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours…
- Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and…
- Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.
- I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . .…
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