Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
EMILY BRONTEIt is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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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 astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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No coward soul is mine.
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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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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