I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
EMILY BRONTEI 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!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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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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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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No coward soul is mine.
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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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’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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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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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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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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