Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
EMILY BRONTEI’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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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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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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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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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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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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