I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
EMILY BRONTEWondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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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 have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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No coward soul is mine.
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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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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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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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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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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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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 will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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