Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
EMILY BRONTEEvery leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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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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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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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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