If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
EMILY BRONTEIt’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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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 for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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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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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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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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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Terror made me cruel.
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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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