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No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
I see
Heaven
's glories shine,
And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear. O God within my breast,
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life — that in me has rest,
As I — undying Life — have power in Thee! Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main...
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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,
Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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O transient voyager of
heaven
!
O silent sign of winter skies!
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If I were in
heaven
, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in
heaven
.
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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 angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his
heaven
would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.
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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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He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs,
With that clear dusk of
heaven
that brings the thickest stars;
Winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire
And visions rise and change which kill me with desire.
Emily Brontë
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
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Emily Brontë
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Born:
July 30, 1818
Died:
December 19, 1848
(aged 30)
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