I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
EMILY BRONTEEarth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I’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.
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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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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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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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