Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
EMILY BRONTEVain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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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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