Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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Quotes by Emily Bronte
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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, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
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.
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Terror made me cruel.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
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