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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to ...more

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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

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My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwell on them, either in thought or narrative, is not...more

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Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

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Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spe...more

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Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

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-But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and your...more

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Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness – to glory?

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[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

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Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

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I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called at length into the joy of his Lord. And...more

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To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation; to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, and ...more

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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, a...more

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

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An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its door quickly, fearful lest the nurse who sat up all ...more