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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 I can recall some sensations felt in that interval; but few thoughts framed, and no actions performed.
2 The action was more frank and fearless than any I was habituated to indulge in: somehow it pleased her.
3 When she left me, I felt comparatively strong and revived: ere long satiety of repose and desire for action stirred me.
4 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.
5 It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you; and besides, the Bible bids us return good for evil.
6 Miss Miller was more ordinary; ruddy in complexion, though of a careworn countenance; hurried in gait and action, like one who had always a multiplicity of tasks on hand: she looked, indeed, what I afterwards found she really was, an under-teacher.
7 Having once explained to them that I could not now be explicit about my plans, they kindly and wisely acquiesced in the silence with which I pursued them, according to me the privilege of free action I should under similar circumstances have accorded them.
8 It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would in time find it possible to become what you yourself would approve; and that if from this day you began with resolution to correct your thoughts and actions, you would in a few years have laid up a new and stainless store of recollections, to which you might revert with pleasure.