Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
EMILY BRONTEI have fled my country and gone to the heather.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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