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 BRONTEIt’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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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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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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’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.
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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