Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
EMILY BRONTEThe clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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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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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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