You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
EMILY BRONTEIt is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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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.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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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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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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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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