Emily Bronte Quotes, Dog Quotes, Lap Quotes

I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception.

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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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Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

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And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out and drank his blood! But, till then - if you don't believe me, you don't know me - til then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair on his head!

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Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

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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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wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

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

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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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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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Worthless as wither'd weeds.

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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.

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I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.

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But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.

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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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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.

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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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I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

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