Emily Brontë quotes

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Having levelled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the unive ...
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts, unutterably vain;
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Love is like the wild rose-briar;
Friendship like the holly-tree.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in him ...
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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.
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