If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
EMILY BRONTEHow cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Terror made me cruel.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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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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