If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
EMILY BRONTEWhatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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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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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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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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And, 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?
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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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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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No coward soul is mine.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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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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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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