It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
EMILY BRONTEI understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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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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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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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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