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If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not, as we feel in a thousand instances.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be

Come back, before I am grown into a very old man, so as you shall hardly know me.

You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!

I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me—for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.

Now friendship may be thus defined: a complete accord on all subjects human and divine, joined with mutual goodwill and affection.

it is in regard to friendship, as in so many other things, so supple and sensitive that it expands, so to speak, at a friend's good fortune, contracts at his misfortunes

Chide me when I do anything that is not well, but then make haste to tell me that you have forgiven me, and that you are what I shall ever be, a faithful friend.

I find I want courage to marry where I do not like

I shall never be persuaded that marriage has a charm to raise love out of nothing, much less out of dislike

If you love me you will; and if you do not, I shall never love myself.

Love is a terrible word, and I should blush to death if anything but a letter accused me on't.

The affectionate heart of my aunt, Catherine Porten, bewailed a sister and a friend; but my poor father was inconsolable, and the transport of grief seemed to threaten his life or his reason.

There is only one event in my life which never loses its bitterness; which comes back on me like a retreating wave, going and coming again, which was and is my grief--I never had but one brother who loved and comprehended me.

When gone from hence, may nobody think of me again, except when one or two may think perhaps how I loved them