I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
EMILY BRONTEI’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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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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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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No coward soul is mine.
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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