I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
EMILY BRONTEA person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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No coward soul is mine.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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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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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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.
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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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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