Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
EMILY BRONTEShe burned too bright for this world.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Terror made me cruel.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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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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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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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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