You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
EMILY BRONTEWe must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
EMILY BRONTE







