I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
EMILY BRONTEHonest people don’t hide their deeds.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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 never told my love vocally still.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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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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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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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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 shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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