If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
EMILY BRONTEA messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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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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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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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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There 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.
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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 can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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