He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
EMILY BRONTEIt 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?
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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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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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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