Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
EMILY BRONTELook on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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.
EMILY BRONTE