I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
EMILY BRONTEGood 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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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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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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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