I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
EMILY BRONTEI understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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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 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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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Terror made me cruel.
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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