If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
EMILY BRONTEHe was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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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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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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