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 BRONTEI’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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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 despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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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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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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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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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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