Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
EMILY BRONTENo coward soul is mine.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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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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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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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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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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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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