I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
EMILY BRONTEYou’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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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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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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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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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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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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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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
EMILY BRONTE







