I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?
Charlotte BronteReserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.
Charlotte Bronte[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
Charlotte BronteTo women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts โ when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break โ at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent โ I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)
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