Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
EMILY BRONTEI 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!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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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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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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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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 have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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