Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
EMILY BRONTEWhatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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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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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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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.
EMILY BRONTE