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.
EMILY BRONTETerror made me cruel.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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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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I never told my love vocally still.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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.
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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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 BRONTE