If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
EMILY BRONTEAnd, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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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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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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She burned too bright for this world.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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