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?
EMILY BRONTEProud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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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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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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I’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.
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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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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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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 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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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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