It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
EMILY BRONTEWondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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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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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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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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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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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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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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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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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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