Worthless as wither’d weeds.
EMILY BRONTEA messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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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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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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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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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
EMILY BRONTE