Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
EMILY BRONTEIt is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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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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!
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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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