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.
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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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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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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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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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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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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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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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