PERFECTION in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 You are not to suppose that I desired perfection, either of mind or person.
2 Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly.
3 Again he turned lividly pale; but, as before, controlled his passion perfectly.
4 They were expected about dark, and ere dusk fires were lit upstairs and below; the kitchen was in perfect trim; Hannah and I were dressed, and all was in readiness.
5 I have a rosy sky and a green flowery Eden in my brain; but without, I am perfectly aware, lies at my feet a rough tract to travel, and around me gather black tempests to encounter.
6 There was no harassing restraint, no repressing of glee and vivacity with him; for with him I was at perfect ease, because I knew I suited him; all I said or did seemed either to console or revive him.
7 My purpose, in short, is to have all things in an absolutely perfect state of readiness for Diana and Mary before next Thursday; and my ambition is to give them a beau-ideal of a welcome when they come.