Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
EMILY BRONTEI shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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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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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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