Emily Brontë quote about hope from Wuthering Heights - One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.
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One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.
 Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847). copy citation

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Author Emily Brontë
Source Wuthering Heights
Topic hope despair doom
Date 1847
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/768/768-h/768-h.htm

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“When his ship struck, the captain abandoned his post; and the crew, instead of trying to save her, rushed into riot and confusion, leaving no hope for their luckless vessel. Linton, on the contrary, displayed the true courage of a loyal and faithful soul: he trusted God; and God comforted him. One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them. But you'll not want to hear my moralising, Mr. Lockwood; you'll judge, as well as I can, all these things: at least, you'll think you will, and that's the same. The end of Earnshaw was what might have been expected; it followed fast on his sister's: there were scarcely six months between them.” source

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