Emily Bronte quotes

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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
Emily Bronte
Existence
Terror made me cruel.
Emily Bronte
Terror
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Bronte
People
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?
Emily Bronte
Friendship
Love
Holly
Will
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Emily Bronte
Work
Obscurity
Results
Silence
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Bronte
Nature
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.
Emily Bronte
Dreams
Life
Ideas
Mind
Water
Wine
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.
Emily Bronte
Society
Company
Country
Man
Now
Pleasure
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
Emily Bronte
People
Deeds
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Emily Bronte
Home
Charity
Giving
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Emily Bronte
Living
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.
Emily Bronte
Work
Chance
Day
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.
Emily Bronte
Heart
Help
Ugly
Will
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
Emily Bronte
Faith
Heaven