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.
EMILY BRONTELove is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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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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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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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 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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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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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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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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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