Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
EMILY BRONTEI wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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If 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.
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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