Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
EMILY BRONTEShe burned too bright for this world.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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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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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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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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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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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