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Honest people don't hide their deeds.
Emily Bronte
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Emily Bronte
Age: 30 †
Born: 1818
Born: July 30
Died: 1848
Died: December 19
Novelist
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Thornton
West Yorkshire
Ellis Bell
Emily Jane Brontë
Aimili Bolangte
Emili Bronte
Emily Jane Bronte
Ai-mi-li Po-lang-tʻe
Ėmilii︠a︡ Bronte
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child Forsake thy books, and mate less play And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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Terror made me cruel.
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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.
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No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.
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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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No coward soul is mine.
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