If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
EMILY BRONTEI understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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