I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
EMILY BRONTEHeaven 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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Terror made me cruel.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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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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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 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!
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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I never told my love vocally still.
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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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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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