Quotes by Bronte, Emily

"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."

Bronte, Emily on dream
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"I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal..."

Bronte, Emily on faith
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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 will bloom most constantly?"

Bronte, Emily on friends and friendship
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"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."

Bronte, Emily on goodness   

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

Bronte, Emily on pride
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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 himself."

Bronte, Emily on society   

"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home."

Bronte, Emily on charity
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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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"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."

Bronte, Emily on work   

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"Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main."

Bronte, Emily on creeds   

"Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living."

Bronte, Emily on death