In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
EMILY BRONTEIn secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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 can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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