Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
EMILY BRONTEI’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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 have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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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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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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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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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 cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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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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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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