The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
EMILY BRONTEA good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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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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That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
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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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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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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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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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.
EMILY BRONTE