Worthless as wither’d weeds.
EMILY BRONTEWorthless as wither’d weeds.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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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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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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