Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
EMILY BRONTEThe old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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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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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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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 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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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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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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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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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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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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