I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
EMILY BRONTEIn secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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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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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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No coward soul is mine.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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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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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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But 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.
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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!
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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. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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