Emily Dickinson Quotes

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

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• Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Beginning

• Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Animal
  • Sexy

• We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

  

  Aristotle
  • Best
  • Moral
  • Virtue

• If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Hate
  • Fall

• We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Eating
  • Hunger
  • Weary

• The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

  

  Alan Hollinghurst
  • Wisdom
  • Writers
  • Tempo

• We made the best decision based on what we knew at the time.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Decision

• Rumors are nearly as old as human history, but with the rise of the Internet, they have become ubiquitous. In fact we are now awash in them. False rumors are especially troublesome; they impose real damage on individuals and institutions, and they often resist correction. They can threaten careers, policies, public officials, and sometimes even democracy itself.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Real
  • Sometimes
  • Democracy

• Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Death
  • Ground
  • Root

• A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • World
  • Tomb
  • Suffices

• My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Enemies
  • Tomb
  • Appointments

• The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • My Life
  • Paris
  • Tomb

• Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Beauty
  • Roses
  • Tomb

• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Kill
  • Genuine
  • Inherit

• Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Drive
  • Tomb

• The world cannot bury Christ. The earth is not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not wide enough for His winding-sheet; He ascends into the heavens, but the heavens cannot contain Him. He still lives--in the church which burns unconsumed with His love; in the truth that reflects His image; in the hearts which burn as He talks with them by the way.

  

  Edward Thomson
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Christ

• Any physical addiction, it doesn't matter how long they've been taking it or how full of it their body is, and addiction, would, between three and thirty days, be completely cleared from the system. Usually closer to three days than thirty days. But it is the emotional craving that must be tended to.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Emotional
  • Body
  • Matter

• Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Tomb
  • Habitation
  • Gnome