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.
EMILY BRONTEI shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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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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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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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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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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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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