I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
EMILY BRONTEThere 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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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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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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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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I never told my love vocally still.
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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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