Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
EMILY BRONTEIt is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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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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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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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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