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.
EMILY BRONTEA messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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