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.
EMILY BRONTEThe tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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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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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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