I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
EMILY BRONTEI’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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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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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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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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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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