. . . still we are none of us perfect . . .
– Charlotte Bront
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- My spirit is willing to do what is right; and my flesh, I hope, is strong enough to accomplish the will of Heaven – Charlotte Bront
- You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood? – Charlotte Bront
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- I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much. – Charlotte Bront
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- Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime. – Charlotte Bront
- Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation. – Charlotte Bront
- I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains. – Charlotte Bront
- My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child. – Charlotte Bront
- . . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves. – Charlotte Bront
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- …would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk’s whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all! – Charlotte Bront
- In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes. – Charlotte Bront
- He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter. – Charlotte Bront
- Jane! will you hear reason?’ (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) ‘because, if you won’t, I’ll try violence. – Charlotte Bront
- They outnumbered me, and I was worsted and under their feet; but, as yet, I was not dead. – Charlotte Bront
- Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. – Charlotte Bront
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- … your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me… – Charlotte Bront