"I have lost the faculty of enjoying their……" — Emily Bronte
"I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing."
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Emily Bronte
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145 Quotes by Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte has 145 quotes on this site.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have…
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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…
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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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Honest people don't hide their deeds.
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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which…
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to…
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest…
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence…
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that…
— Isaac Asimov
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
— Isaac Asimov
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
— James A. Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The…
— Charles A. Beard
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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
— Joseph Addison
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
— Max Beerbohm
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time…
— Ingrid Bergman
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget…
— Aneurin Bevan
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it…
— William Blake
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