I'll not listen to reason.. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Elizabeth Gaskell
reason listen
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
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The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it
cloud
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
bones flesh great
Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
thetimes time wife silly
We were none of us musical, though Miss Jenkyns beat time, out of time, by way of appearing to be so.
time beat
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly
life
Bombazine would have shown a deeper sense of her loss.
sense loss
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.
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I dare say, my remark came from the professional feeling of there being nothing like leather.
feeling dare books
And besides, in the matter of friendship, I have observed that the disappointment here arises chiefly, from liking our friends too well, or thinking of them too highly, but rather from an over-estimate of liking for and opinion of ; and that if we guard ourselves with sufficient scrupulousness of care from error in this direction, and can be content, and even happy to give more affection than we receive -- can make just comparison of circumstances, and be severely accurate in drawing inferences thence, and never let self-love blind our eyes -- I think we may manage to get through life with consistency and constancy, unembittered by that misanthropy which springs from revulsions of feeling. All this sounds a little metaphysical, but it is good sense of if you consider it. The moral of it is, that if we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for sakes rather than for ; we must look at their truth to, full as much as their truth to. In the latter case, every wound to self-love would be a cause of coldness; in the former, only some painful change in the friend's character and disposition -- some fearful breach in his allegiance to his better self -- could alienate the heart.(quoted from a letter by Charlotte Brontë to her publisher)
friendship
I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine..
hope
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
inspirational
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