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!
EMILY BRONTEYour presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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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