"We must be for ourselves in the long……" — Emily Bronte
"We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering."
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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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I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion,…
— Conrad Black
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Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness…
— Friedrich Ratzel
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While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four…
— Hal Porter
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Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs,…
— Albert Einstein
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Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often…
— Aldous Huxley
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A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in…
— Mao Zedong
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This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and…
— Michael Jackson
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Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often…
— Pliny the Elder
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
— Charles de Gaulle
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I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
— Jacki Weaver
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Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter…
— Janet Evanovich
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My domineering lover made no apologies for his caveman tendencies.
— Sylvia Day
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