How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
EMILY BRONTEIf I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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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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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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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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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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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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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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