Love 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?
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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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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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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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?
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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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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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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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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