No coward soul is mine.
EMILY BRONTEYou have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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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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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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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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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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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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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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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