If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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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 will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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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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