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Earth Quotes by Emily Bronte

9 Earth quotes by Emily Bronte

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Emily Bronte's take on the world we inhabit carries her signature intensity and lyricism. In this brief collection of nine passages, she weaves personal feeling with the larger landscape, giving readers a focused taste of how she perceives the planet.

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

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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!

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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…

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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm,…

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I'm happiest when most away I can bear my soul from its home of clay On a windy night when the moon…

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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the…

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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…

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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…

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I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me?…

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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow; I shall sing when night's decay Ushers in a drearier day.

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how cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling

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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.

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“Mama never told me I had a father.”

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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…

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“It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not?”

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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

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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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Tis moonlight, summer moonlight, All soft and still and fair; The solemn hour of midnight Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere, But most where trees are…

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“It expressed, plainer than words could do, the intense anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge. Had it been…

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