Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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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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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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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No coward soul is mine.
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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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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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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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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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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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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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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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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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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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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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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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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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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 gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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