I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
EMILY BRONTEIf 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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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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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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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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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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