Emily Bronte Quotes

He’s more myself than I am

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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

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Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

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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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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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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

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I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

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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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You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

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Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.

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I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.

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It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

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Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.

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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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No coward soul is mine.

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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

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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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Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!

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