If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
EMILY BRONTEMay you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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 love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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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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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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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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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 despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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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?
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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.
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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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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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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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