I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
EMILY BRONTEVain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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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’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 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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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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