Emily Bronte Quotes

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• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
• 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,…
• Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
• 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.
• If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
• Honest people don't hide their deeds.
• I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
• Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
• 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.
• A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
• The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
• I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
• Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
• Terror made me cruel.
• No coward soul is mine.
• It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
• Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
• ...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever…
• You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.
• 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…

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