What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
EMILY BRONTEI shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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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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