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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same


Emily Brontë

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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
EMILY BRONTE Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
LAUREN GILLEY He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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 Whatever the hell our souls are made of, they are the same.
ANNA TODD He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself th...
EMILY BRONTë ...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is...
EMILY BRONTE The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limi...
JAMES A. MICHENER Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE There are things our souls want, and mine wants you.
CASSANDRA CLARE Quite alone both as a novel and as a piece of terror-literature stands the famous Wuthering Heights ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Brokenness is just like beauty; it's something we wear and carry, and if we let it define us, it wil...
LAUREN MILLER Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think i...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You're a throwback."
"To what?"
Jess considered this. Hi-tech at work, Emily was paradoxic...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in the...
EMILY BRONTë If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human conditio...
MARY ELLEN MARK Religion and faith… So many religions but one and the only faith inside our souls… You and me ar...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST The way a stream is connected to its source, the same way our souls are connected to their source.
MAHRUKH You are either old souls who connect and share the same interest... or you are not.
HAYLEY MILLS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Women are made to be loved, not understood.
OSCAR WILDE In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule...
SARAH MCCOY Our souls sparkle brightly with creative energy, our beings are as complex as the universe, and at t...
STEPHEN RICHARDS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Wherever soul...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Whatever kind of object … we are at any time conscious of, we are always at the same time consciou...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Our bodies are made of supernova dust, the epitome of ultimate destruction and shatter. And though w...
HUBERT MARTIN Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
VICTOR HUGO Our hearts speak the same language but more importantly our souls share the same voice.
NIKKI ROWE The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he cri...
FREDERIC RAPHAEL The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he cr...
FREDERIC RAPHAEL A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ...
CAREW PAPRITZ Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
ANDRE MAUROIS All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
SOCRATES We are available for any kids. We've got hispanic children. We've got white children, everyone ... I...
KAREN PAQUIN Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.
CASSANDRA CLARE we are all of 1 accord Strike all our souls the same notechord It is only God whom we'll call Lord n...
O ANNA NIEMUS That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of...
EDMUND WALLER That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his o...
EDMUND WALLER All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
SOCRATES Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all ...
PETER HøEG Be a master of yourself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You are amazing person with unique talents. Have faith in your abilities.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The nominees for the Olympic team are Emily Hughes ...
BOB HOREN Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.
BHAGAT SINGH Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK Are you mine?’ he murmurs. ‘Always,’ I answer as his lips find mine.
MILA GRAY Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. ...
ANN VOSKAMP We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with ...
OSHO Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
SENECA I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL When you have the strength to stand up for yourself ,the ones you love and the dignity and honor to ...
GARY F EVANS... We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted...
JOHN GREEN When you come up against any type of bullies whether it be physical or psychological they all look f...
GARY F EVANS... When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Ar...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.
JULIA CAMERON Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and rui...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY [His characters] are always 7 feet tall and invincible, mine are 5 feet 8 and nervous.
ELMER KELTON Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS You are the architect of your life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We are the same age, and we are friends. Whatever the result, I hope to celebrate with him afterward...
LEE SEUNG YEOP Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls, to keep our ...
BECKY ALIGADA If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty o...
ROLAND ALLEN A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of ou...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I wish I could hold you," she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead!
EMILY BRONTë We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in ...
VALENTINA TERESHKOVA My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died sta...
DOUGLAS ADAMS There are sins of omission and sins of commission, my friend. I've dealt with mine and i've forgiven...
WILL FETTERS Our souls are always looking for love, and hearts wait to treasure it.
MUNIA KHAN The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of...
DAVID JAMES DUNCAN If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one:I hope that man and womankind will do the same by ...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Father's ideals became part of me and still are today. His reserve, deeply rooted liberal views,...
NIKI DE ST. PHALLE We hadn't even made it to the airport. Same thing after the Arkansas game. He's a good friend of min...
BOBBY JOHNSON We are meant to be.” He pressed his lips to mine again; against myself, against my worry, I once a...
KAILIN GOW We weren’t that different after all, our souls laden with the same ache of loss, our hearts bursti...
RACHEL L. SCHADE Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but th...
VICTOR HUGO We almost made love with fire, fire in our eyes, fire in our souls, and even in our bones.
TAMARA STAMENKOVIC Idea is an introduction to creativity that gives birth to reality.
STEPHEN MAGNUS When your soul and mine
have left our bodies and we are
burried alongside each other,
OMAR KHAYYáM There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.
STEPHEN FRY When you reach illumination, you lose paradise. Illumination is the place where you gain knowledge t...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, tho...
PATRICK NESS Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Life without freedom is no life at all.
FRIEND OF MINE Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable; it's also unbiblical.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by...
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Progress is being made, but a lot of women are realizing it is not what they envisioned.
ELAINE CHAO How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON When you think of all that goes into what you write you realize that only you see all that is needed...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive ...
ANNE BRONTë You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take...
ANNE BRONTë Cheerfulness, it would appear,
is a matter which depends fully as much on the state
of t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Evening Solace

The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sea...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he
admired in othe...
ANNE BRONTë So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevat...
ANNE BRONTë Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and ...
ANNE BRONTë How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our o...
ANNE BRONTë I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither so...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeeme...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a n...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charm...
ANNE BRONTë I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I deligh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And what is hell? Can you tell me that?”
“A pit full of fire.”
“And should you lik...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird, no net ensnares me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë