He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
EMILY BRONTEI can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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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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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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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