Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
EMILY BRONTEBy this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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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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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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Good 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.
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