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.
EMILY BRONTEIf I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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No coward soul is mine.
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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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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
EMILY BRONTE