And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
EMILY BRONTEI am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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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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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No coward soul is mine.
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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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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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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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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