in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.
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I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory Wait God's will.
from the book "" by Charlotte Brontė
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.
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What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.
from the book "Jane Eyre" by Gary Fukungaga
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.
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Have you yet read Miss Martineau's and Mr. Atkinson's new work, Letters on the Nature and Development of Man? If you have not, it would be worth your while to do so. Of the impression this book has made on me, I will not now say much. It is the first exposition of avowed atheism and materialism I have ever read; the first unequivocal declaration of disbelief in the existence of a God or a future life I have ever seen. In judging of such exposition and declaration, one would wish entirely to put aside the sort of instinctive horror they awaken, and to consider them in an impartial spirit and collected mood. This I find difficult to do. The strangest thing is, that we are called on to rejoice over this hopeless blank to receive this bitter bereavement as great gain to welcome this unutterable desolation as a state of pleasant freedom. Who could do this if he would? Who would do this if he could? Sincerely, for my own part, do I wish to know and find the Truth; but if this be Truth, well may she guard herself with mysteries, and cover herself with a veil. If this be Truth, man or woman who beholds her can but curse the day he or she was born. I said however, I would not dwell on what I thought; rather, I wish to hear what some other person thinks, --someone whose feelings are unapt to bias his judgment. Read the book, then, in an unprejudiced spirit, and candidly say what you think of it. I mean, of course, if you have time not otherwise.
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
from the book "Jane Eyre" by Gary Fukungaga
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Soul)
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
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Reader, I married him.
from the book "Jane Eyre" by Gary Fukungaga