The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter–often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter–in the eye.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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 inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
It is not violence that best overcomes hate-nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The legend went, unconfirmed and unaccredited, but still propagated.
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte
I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte
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 likeness to life makes me sad.
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte