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.
EMILY BRONTEI have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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