"If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it."
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Emily Bronte quotes (page 6 of 8)
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"Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee."
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"They forgot everything the minute they were together again."
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"He’s more myself than I am"
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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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"You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles."
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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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"He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!"
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"I ran to the children's room: their door was ajar, I saw they had never laid down, though it was past midnight; but they were calmer, and did not need me to console them. The little souls were comforting each other with better thoughts than I could have hit on: no parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk; and, while I sobbed, and listened. I could not help wishing we were all there safe together."
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"Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?"
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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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"You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!"
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"You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you."
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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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"Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?"
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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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"It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him."
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"You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!"
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"Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt."
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"Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?"
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