Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
EMILY BRONTEThoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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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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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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