in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.
from the book "Jane Eyre" by Gary Fukungaga
The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
What animal magnetism drew thee and me togetherI know not.
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.
I describe imperfect characters. Every character in this book will be found to be more or less imperfect, my pen refusing to draw anything in the model line.
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.
Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I.
Women are supposed to be very calm generally; but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.