Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
EMILY BRONTENo coward soul is mine.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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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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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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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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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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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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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 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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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