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.
EMILY BRONTEYou have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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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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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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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