The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
EMILY BRONTEYou know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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