Terror made me cruel.
EMILY BRONTEIf 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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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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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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