Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
EMILY BRONTEI am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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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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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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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