If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
EMILY BRONTETreachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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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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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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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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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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