We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
EMILY BRONTEWorthless as wither’d weeds.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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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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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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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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