Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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No coward soul is mine.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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