I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
EMILY BRONTEOh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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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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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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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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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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