It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
EMILY BRONTEHe 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!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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No coward soul is mine.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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 despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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