If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
EMILY BRONTEThe tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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Terror made me cruel.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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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