If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
EMILY BRONTEWhat kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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