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.
EMILY BRONTEHonest people don’t hide their deeds.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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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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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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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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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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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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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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She burned too bright for this world.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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