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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 3, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 38.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 38.

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I would always rather be happy than dignified.

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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 34.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 34.

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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education.

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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 3, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 29.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 29.

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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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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 2, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 23.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 23.

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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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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 12.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 12.

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My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 2, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 24.

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, 2nd ed. London: Service and Patton, 1848, preface.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, preface to the 2nd ed.

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I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you.

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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 2, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 27.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 27.

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The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed.

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

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Brontë, Charlotte. "Evening Solace." Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. 1846, st. 1.

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Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Villette. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1853, ch. 36.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Villette, edited by Helen Cooper. Penguin Classics, 2004, ch. 36.

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We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air;
We dug a spring in infancy
Of water pure and fair;
We sowed in youth a mustard seed,
We cut an almond rod;
We are now grown up to riper age —
Are they withered in the sod?

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Brontë, Charlotte. "We wove a web in childhood." 1835.

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Brontë, Charlotte. "From 'Retrospection.'" Brontës: Selected Poems, edited by Pamela Norris. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023.

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.