Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
EMILY BRONTETime brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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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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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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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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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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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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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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