The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
EMILY BRONTEI 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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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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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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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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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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