The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of 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 love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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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. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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No coward soul is mine.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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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’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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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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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