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!
EMILY BRONTEYou must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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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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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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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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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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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No coward soul is mine.
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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