He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
EMILY BRONTEEarth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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I never told my love vocally still.
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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 have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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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