Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
EMILY BRONTEAny relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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 have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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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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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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