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


Emily Bronte

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EMILY DICKINSON Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves a...
EMILY DICKINSON I'm nobody, who are you?
EMILY DICKINSON A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
EMILY DICKINSON Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
EMILY DICKINSON I dwell in possibility.
EMILY DICKINSON A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend...
EMILY DICKINSON I'm a big zombie buff.
EMILY VANCAMP How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that...
EMILY OSTER I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggl...
EMILY WATSON Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dain...
EMILY DICKINSON May she wake in torment!’ [...] ‘Why, she’s a liar to
the end! Where is she? Not there - ...
EMILY BRONTë Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
EMILY BRONTë Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and ...
EMILY BRONTë Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did no...
EMILY BRONTë Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbea...
EMILY BRONTë You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
EMILY BRONTë It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss m...
EMILY BRONTë It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
EMILY BRONTë She burned too bright for this world.
EMILY BRONTë Terror made me cruel . . .
EMILY BRONTë It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sic...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and yo...
EMILY CARROLL How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
EMILY DICKINSON My first lip balms were Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, which, correct me if I'm wrong, sometimes had l...
EMILY WEISS The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking th...
EMILY DESCHANEL Your bikini should compliment your dress, and they should work together to frame your body. It's...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI