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 BRONTEI 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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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Nay, 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.
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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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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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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