What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
EMILY BRONTEProud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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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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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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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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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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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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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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 never told my love vocally still.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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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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