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161 " It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. "
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
162 " I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world. "
163 " 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. "
164 " I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me. "
165 " I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me. "
166 " I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. "
167 " I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract: I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him.I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered: - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him. "
168 " A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again. "
169 " Beauty is in the eye of the gazer. "
170 " I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent. "
171 " I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto. "
172 " He made me love him without looking at me. "
173 " I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint. "
174 " A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance. "
175 " To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — 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 — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane) "
176 " To prolong doubt was to prolong hope. "
177 " What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter? "
178 " Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force! "
179 " I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not? "
180 " 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 spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Helen Burns "