I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
EMILY BRONTEMy love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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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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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.
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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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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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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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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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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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