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If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

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Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

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It was a one-tone landscape. Sky, hills, barns, earth, all was a single mass of lifeless grey.

The Night Horseman by Max Brand

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There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

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No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

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If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter–often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter–in the eye.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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Tha'll make him laugh an' there's nowt as good for ill folk as laughin' is. Mother says she believes as half a hour's good laugh every mornin' 'ud cure a chap as was makin' ready for typhus fever.

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than anyone can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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Sleep went quite away. I used to rise in the night, look round for her, beseech her earnestly to return. A rattle of the window, a cry of the blast only replied---Sleep never came!

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

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No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato.

Villette by Charlotte Bronte