Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
EMILY BRONTEAny relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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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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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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Terror made me cruel.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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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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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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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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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’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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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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