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.
EMILY BRONTEBut 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.
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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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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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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!
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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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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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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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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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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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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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