Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
EMILY BRONTETreachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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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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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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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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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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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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