I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
EMILY BRONTEIf I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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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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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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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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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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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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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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