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.
EMILY BRONTEYou’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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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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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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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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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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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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