I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
EMILY BRONTEYou’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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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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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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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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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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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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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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