Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTEIf I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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