She burned too bright for this world.
EMILY BRONTETime brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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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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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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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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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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