I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
EMILY BRONTENay, 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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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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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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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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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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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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