He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
EMILY BRONTEIt is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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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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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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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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I never told my love vocally still.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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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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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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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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