"In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful……" — Emily Bronte
"In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away"
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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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More Changeful Quotes
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one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke…
— Charlotte Bronte
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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
— Mark Twain
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How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the…
— Robert Penn Warren
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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream,…
— Walter Scott
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.
— William Shakespeare
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The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on…
— Erasmus Darwin
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position…
— Honore de Balzac
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Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft…
— Sarah Doudney
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