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 BRONTEHe was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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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 have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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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 pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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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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No coward soul is mine.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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