In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
EMILY BRONTEIt is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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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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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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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 despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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