Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
EMILY BRONTESweet 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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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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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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 cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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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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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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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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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