Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
EMILY BRONTEYou’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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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’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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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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