Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
EMILY BRONTEWe must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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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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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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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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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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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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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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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I never told my love vocally still.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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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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