Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
EMILY BRONTEIf 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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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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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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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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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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