Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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.
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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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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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I never told my love vocally still.
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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 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 winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
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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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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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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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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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I’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.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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