DUTY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 Various duties awaited me on my arrival.
2 Bertha, like a dutiful child, copied her parent in both points.
3 You have done your duty in excluding, now let me do mine in admitting her.
4 I appealed to one who, in the discharge of what he believed his duty, knew neither mercy nor remorse.
5 My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office.
6 He had performed an act of duty; made an exertion; felt his own strength to do and deny, and was on better terms with himself.
7 The clergyman stayed to exchange a few sentences, either of admonition or reproof, with his haughty parishioner; this duty done, he too departed.
8 I had given in allegiance to duty and order; I was quiet; I believed I was content: to the eyes of others, usually even to my own, I appeared a disciplined and subdued character.
9 They betray an unfortunate state of mind: they merit severe reproof: they would seem inexcusable, but that it is the duty of man to forgive his fellow even until seventy-and-seven times.
10 I abhor artifice, particularly in children; it is my duty to show you that tricks will not answer: you will now stay here an hour longer, and it is only on condition of perfect submission and stillness that I shall liberate you then.
11 We parted finally at the door of the Brocklehurst Arms there: each went her separate way; she set off for the brow of Lowood Fell to meet the conveyance which was to take her back to Gateshead, I mounted the vehicle which was to bear me to new duties and a new life in the unknown environs of Millcote.
12 Mr. Brocklehurst, who, from his wealth and family connections, could not be overlooked, still retained the post of treasurer; but he was aided in the discharge of his duties by gentlemen of rather more enlarged and sympathising minds: his office of inspector, too, was shared by those who knew how to combine reason with strictness, comfort with economy, compassion with uprightness.