Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
EMILY BRONTEA person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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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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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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