Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
EMILY BRONTEIf I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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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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That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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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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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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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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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 tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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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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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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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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