Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
EMILY BRONTEThe clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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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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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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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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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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