He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
EMILY BRONTEA sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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 despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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