How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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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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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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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