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.
EMILY BRONTEI have fled my country and gone to the heather.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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Terror made me cruel.
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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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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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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.
EMILY BRONTE