In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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No coward soul is mine.
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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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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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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