I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
EMILY BRONTEBut 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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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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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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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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