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.
EMILY BRONTEThat 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for 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 never told my love vocally still.
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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.
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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