"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
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"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
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"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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"God did not give me my life to throw it away."
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"Better to be without logic than without feeling."
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"I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing."
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"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."
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"What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself."
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"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."
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"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."
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"To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true."
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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 fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength."
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"'My bride is here,' Rochester said , again drawing me to him, 'because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?'"
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"Remorse is the poison of life."
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"Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition."
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"Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
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"Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day."
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"The shadows are as important as the light."
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"Conventionality is not morality."
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"But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!"
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