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.
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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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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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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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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Terror made me cruel.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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