You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
EMILY BRONTEAny relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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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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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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Terror made me cruel.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
EMILY BRONTE