And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
EMILY BRONTEA good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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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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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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