If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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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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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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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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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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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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No coward soul is mine.
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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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