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.
EMILY BRONTEYou know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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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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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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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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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’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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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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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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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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