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.
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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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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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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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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I never told my love vocally still.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
EMILY BRONTE