By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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 clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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