Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
EMILY BRONTEI’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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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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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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