It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
EMILY BRONTEIf I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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