"If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."
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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
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"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after."
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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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"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."
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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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"The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window."
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"She burned too bright for this world."
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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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"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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"I will walk where my own nature would be leading."
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"No coward soul is mine."
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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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"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."
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"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."
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"I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."
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"I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow."
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"I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you."
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"However , it’s over, and I’ll take no revenge on his folly – I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the meanest thing alive slap me on the cheek, I’d not only turn the other, but I’d ask pardon for provoking it – and, as proof, I’ll go make my peace with Edgar instantly – Good night – I’m an angel!"
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"Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure."
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