Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
EMILY BRONTEIn secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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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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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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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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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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