I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

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

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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

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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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I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly.

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It is 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.

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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.

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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.

Charlotte Bronte in Jane Eyre (1847)
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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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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

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