I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
EMILY BRONTEWe must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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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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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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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.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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