I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
EMILY BRONTEThe winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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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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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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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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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 have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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