If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
EMILY BRONTEI am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
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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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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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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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