In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
EMILY BRONTEA person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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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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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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