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.
EMILY BRONTEHonest people don’t hide their deeds.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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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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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 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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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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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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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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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