STRENGTH in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 My strength sufficed for but short answers.
2 I could comprehend the feeling, and share both its strength and truth.
3 Renewing then my courage, and gathering my feeble remains of strength, I pushed on.
4 I have acted as I inwardly swore I would act; but further might try me beyond my strength.
5 I have been too abrupt in communicating the news; it has excited you beyond your strength.
6 I soon withdrew, for I had talked as much, and sat up as long, as my present strength would permit.
7 The wish to have some strength and some vigour returned to me as soon as I was amongst my fellow-beings.
8 I got some water, I got some bread: for perhaps I should have to walk far; and my strength, sorely shaken of late, must not break down.
9 Mr. Rochester came thrice to my door in the course of it, to ask if I was safe and tranquil: and that was comfort, that was strength for anything.
10 My eye rose to his; and while I looked in his fierce face I gave an involuntary sigh; his gripe was painful, and my over-taxed strength almost exhausted.
11 Neither of these returnings was very pleasant or desirable: no magnet drew me to a given point, increasing in its strength of attraction the nearer I came.
12 He is not of your order: keep to your caste, and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised.
13 I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert their existence, their presence, their liberty and strength again one day.
14 Men and women die; philosophers falter in wisdom, and Christians in goodness: if any one you know has suffered and erred, let him look higher than his equals for strength to amend and solace to heal.
15 God had an errand for me; to bear which afar, to deliver it well, skill and strength, courage and eloquence, the best qualifications of soldier, statesman, and orator, were all needed: for these all centre in the good missionary.
16 Self-abandoned, relaxed, and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, and felt the torrent come: to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.
17 So happy, so gratified did I become with this new interest added to life, that I ceased to pine after kindred: my thin crescent-destiny seemed to enlarge; the blanks of existence were filled up; my bodily health improved; I gathered flesh and strength.
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