Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
EMILY BRONTENonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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No coward soul is mine.
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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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