No coward soul is mine.
EMILY BRONTEI wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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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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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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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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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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