Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
EMILY BRONTEProud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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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’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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