A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
EMILY BRONTEMy love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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