Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
EMILY BRONTE
I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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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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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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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
EMILY BRONTE