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.
EMILY BRONTEEarth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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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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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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Terror made me cruel.
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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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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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 have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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