A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
EMILY BRONTETerror 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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No coward soul is mine.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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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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