If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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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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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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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 am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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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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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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