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Them Quotes by Charlotte Bronte
- Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left…
- 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…
- 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…
- Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise…
- Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.
- 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…
- At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as…
- Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes…
- He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I…
- I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their…
- Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover…
- But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who…
- So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are…
- He is not to them what he is to me.
- Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.
- Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!
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