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.
EMILY BRONTEProud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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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 gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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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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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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No coward soul is mine.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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