 I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God, sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane and not mad — as...  Jane Eyre - Page 336by Charlotte Brontė - 1864 - 483 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - Woman--Legal status, laws, etc - 1868 - 578 pages
...or who will be injured by what you do?" " / care for myself" is the indomitable reply : " the more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained,...the law given by God, sanctioned by man. I will hold by the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad, as I am now. Laws and principles are... | |
 | Peter Bayne - English poetry - 1881 - 426 pages
...will be injured by what you do?" Still, indomitable was the reply — " I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained...— as I am now. Laws and principles are not for the tunes when there is no temptation : they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny... | |
 | Ernest Faulkner Brown - 1881 - 86 pages
...said. ' Think of his misery, think of his danger, look at his state when left alone Who in the world I am, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by GOD, and sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad, as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone. — Earle Buhver-Lytton, The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect and rely upon myself. — Charlotte Brontl. Who hath not known ill-fortune never knew himself or his... | |
 | P. F. Rowland - 1894 - 42 pages
...puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.' (Jani Eyre.) more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained...will keep the law given by God, sanctioned by man. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation : they are for such moments as... | |
 | Rev. S. Pollock Linn - Quotations - 1881 - 472 pages
...is such a serious world that we should never speak at all unless we have something to say. THB more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect and rely upon myself. Charlotte Bronte. THE mind can be emptied in a much shorter time than it is possible... | |
 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - Women - 1914 - 592 pages
...you? or who will be injured by what you do?" "I care for myself," is the indomitable reply: "the more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained,...the law given by God, sanctioned by man. I will hold by the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad, as I am now. Laws and principles are... | |
 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - Women - 1914 - 588 pages
...you? or who will be injured by what you do?" "7 care for myself," is the indomitable reply: "the more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained,...the law given by God, sanctioned by man. I will hold by the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad, as I am now. Laws and principles are... | |
 | 1922 - 1180 pages
...strength of temptation, of the power of the soul to overcome temptation, depicted here ? : . . . The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ... I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane and not mad — as I am now. Laws and principles... | |
 | Barbara Hill Rigney - English fiction - 1978 - 164 pages
...chastity is a form of inaccessibility. Jane thus rejects the temptation to become Rochester's mistress: I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by men when I was sane, and not mad—as I am now.... If I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane—quite... | |
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