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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/chapter-xxiii">chapter-xxiii</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/21101-do-you-think-i-am-an-automaton-a-machine">5442 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “<i>I</i> care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/ataraxy">ataraxy</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/defiance">defiance</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/empowerment">empowerment</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/independence">independence</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/individuality">individuality</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self-assurance">self-assurance</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self-awareness">self-awareness</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self-containment">self-containment</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self-determination">self-determination</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self-esteem">self-esteem</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self-reliance">self-reliance</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self-respect">self-respect</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self-sufficiency">self-sufficiency</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self-trust">self-trust</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/solitude">solitude</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/66560-i-care-for-myself-the-more-solitary-the-more-friendless">4855 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Bronte, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/grudges">grudges</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/4815-life-appears-to-me-too-short-to-be-spent-in">4110 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/age">age</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/empowerment">empowerment</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/equality">equality</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/experience">experience</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/freedom">freedom</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/gender">gender</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/independence">independence</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/men">men</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/reason">reason</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self-determination">self-determination</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/submission">submission</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/superiority">superiority</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/women">women</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/women-s-rights">women-s-rights</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/94823-i-do-not-think-sir-you-have-any-right-to">3318 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Bronte, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_5279846> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/111051-i-have-for-the-first-time-found-what-i-can">2981 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"<br /><br />"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.<br /><br />"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"<br /><br />"A pit full of fire."<br /><br />"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"<br /><br />"No, sir."<br /><br />"What must you do to avoid it?"<br /><br />I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/children">children</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/hell">hell</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/humor">humor</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/religion">religion</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/110638-no-sight-so-sad-as-that-of-a-naughty-child">2922 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/conscience">conscience</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/innocence">innocence</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/1157-if-all-the-world-hated-you-and-believed-you-wicked">2804 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."<br />"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë , </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/freedom">freedom</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/inspirational">inspirational</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/literature">literature</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/4641-jane-be-still-don-t-struggle-so-like-a-wild-frantic">2585 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/character">character</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/empowerment">empowerment</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/flaws">flaws</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/freedom">freedom</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/gender">gender</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/ideal-woman">ideal-woman</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/identity">identity</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/image">image</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/independence">independence</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/integrity">integrity</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/men">men</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/realism">realism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/romance">romance</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self-awareness">self-awareness</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/self-determination">self-determination</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/women">women</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/45320-i-am-not-an-angel-i-asserted-and-i-will">2492 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/charlotte-bronte">charlotte-bronte</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/heart">heart</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/heartbreak">heartbreak</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/jane-eyre">jane-eyre</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/misconceptions">misconceptions</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/obscurity">obscurity</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/parting">parting</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/plainness">plainness</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/poverty">poverty</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/soul">soul</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/346856-do-you-think-because-i-am-poor-obscure-plain-and">2381 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/eyre">eyre</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/jane">jane</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/31464-i-can-live-alone-if-self-respect-and-circumstances-require-me">2271 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “Reader, I married him.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_50165> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/58394-reader-i-married-him">2188 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/education">education</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/prejudice">prejudice</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/14876-prejudices-it-is-well-known-are-most-difficult-to-eradicate">1891 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/adoration">adoration</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/fidelity">fidelity</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/40580-every-atom-of-your-flesh-is-as-dear-to-me">1881 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/affection">affection</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/attraction">attraction</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/34437-i-had-not-intended-to-love-him-the-reader-knows">1561 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/becoming-jane">becoming-jane</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/flirting">flirting</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/sex">sex</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/270143-flirting-is-a-woman-s-trade-one-must-keep-in-practice">1408 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Bronte, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/poetry">poetry</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/127584-all-my-heart-is-yours-sir-it-belongs-to-you">1345 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/eyes">eyes</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/interpretation">interpretation</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/mind">mind</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/soul">soul</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/6575-the-soul-fortunately-has-an-interpreter---often-an-unconscious">1265 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/marriage-proposal">marriage-proposal</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/9927-i-ask-you-to-pass-through-life-at-my-side-to">1192 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/obsession">obsession</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/70043-i-have-little-left-in-myself----i-must-have">1165 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?"<br /><br />I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still. <br /><br />"Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/romance">romance</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/198195-it-is-a-long-way-to-ireland-janet-and-i">1133 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. 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, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, to absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/feminism">feminism</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/gender-equality">gender-equality</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/jane-eyre">jane-eyre</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/36027-it-is-in-vain-to-say-human-beings-ought-to">1097 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/friendship">friendship</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/happiness">happiness</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/inspirational">inspirational</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/38257-there-is-no-happiness-like-that-of-being-loved-by">1071 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/depression">depression</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/life">life</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/loneliness">loneliness</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/sunshine">sunshine</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/55317-even-for-me-life-had-its-gleams-of-sunshine">1052 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/god">god</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/nature">nature</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/93471-we-know-that-god-is-everywhere-but-certainly-we-feel">1007 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/feelings">feelings</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/flattery">flattery</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/love">love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/secret-love">secret-love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/sense">sense</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/unavowed-love">unavowed-love</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/vulnerability">vulnerability</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/women">women</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/58358-it-does-good-to-no-woman-to-be-flattered-by">871 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" rel="nofollow" href="/user/new">Like</a> </div> </div> <div class='quote'> <div class='quoteDetails'> <div class="quoteText"> “Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Charlotte Brontë, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_10210> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/2977639">Jane Eyre</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="greyText smallText left"> tags: <a href="/quotes/tag/body">body</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/doctrine">doctrine</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/ethics">ethics</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/law">law</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/morality">morality</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/principles">principles</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/religion">religion</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/soul">soul</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/steadfastness">steadfastness</a>, <a href="/quotes/tag/temptation">temptation</a> </div> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/44541-laws-and-principles-are-not-for-the-times-when-there">824 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='action'> <a class="gr-button gr-button--small" 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