"There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed."
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"It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn."
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"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."
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"Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him -- Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse -- It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?"
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"The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again"
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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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"The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one."
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"Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous"
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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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"And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day."
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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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"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them."
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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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"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will changeit,I'mwellaware, aswinterchangesthetrees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneatha source of little visible delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff."
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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 see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal."
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"He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result."
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"It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive."
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"No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere."
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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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