Emily Bronte
Novelist
1818-07-30 – 1848-12-19
Emily Bronte was an English novelist and poet best known for Wuthering Heights. Her work became a central contribution to nineteenth-century English literature.
Books by Emily Bronte
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Wuthering Heights
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Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
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Wuthering Heights / Agnes Grey
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Quotes by Emily Bronte
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Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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.
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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 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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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.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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