He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
EMILY BRONTEBy this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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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.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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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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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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