What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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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She burned too bright for this world.
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No coward soul is mine.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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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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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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