The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
EMILY BRONTEMay you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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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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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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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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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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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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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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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Terror made me cruel.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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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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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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