I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
("Jane Eyre")
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His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapor sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms could wash away; it was a name graven on a tablet, fated to last as long as the marble it inscribed. The craving to know what had become of him followed me everywhere.Charlotte Bronte
I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.
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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
Charlotte Bronte
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
Charlotte Bronte
It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments to returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it...
Charlotte Bronte
Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man.
Charlotte Bronte
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