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.
EMILY BRONTEWondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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?
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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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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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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No coward soul is mine.
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