In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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 fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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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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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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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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Terror made me cruel.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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