You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
EMILY BRONTEThe tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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No coward soul is mine.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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