Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
EMILY BRONTEBut 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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No coward soul is mine.
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