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Emily Bronte
English
Novelist
About the author
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
Emily Bronte,
English
Novelist
#People
#Deeds
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Emily Bronte,
English
Novelist
#Living
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Emily Bronte,
English
Novelist
#Home
#Giving
#Charity
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
Emily Bronte,
English
Novelist
#Faith
#Heaven
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,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Heart
#Help
#Ugly
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,
English
Novelist
#Chance
#Work
#Day
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,
English
Novelist
#Now
#Country
#Man
#Society
#Pleasure
#Company
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,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Dreams
#Ideas
#Mind
#Water
#Wine
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Bronte,
English
Novelist
#Nature
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Emily Bronte,
English
Novelist
#Work
#Results
#Silence
#Obscurity
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,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Will
#Holly
#Friendship
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Bronte,
English
Novelist
#People
Terror made me cruel.
Emily Bronte,
English
Novelist
#Terror
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
Emily Bronte,
English
Novelist
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte,
English
Novelist
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,
English
Novelist
#Existence