Author: Mind On Fire Books

Emily Brontë was born 30 July 1818, and died 19 December 1848.

Nine Quotes

1. He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
2. Terror made me cruel.
3. 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
4. Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
5. If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
6. Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
7. The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
8. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
9. Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet, remembered for her novel,Wuthering Heights, which is now considered a classic of English literature. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell. Her sisters were Anne Brontë and Charlotte Brontë.

Aldous Huxley was born 26 July 1894, and died 22 November 1963.

15 Aldous Huxley Quotes

1. The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
2. Every man’s memory is his private literature.
3. There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
4. The proper study of mankind is books.
5. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
6. A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.
7. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
8. Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
9. I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
10. The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
11. Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
12. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
13. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
14. Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
15. That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley was an English writer, best known for his dystopian novel, Brave New World. He also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry. Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist, who was also well known for his advocacy and consumption of psychedelic drugs.