Emily Dickinson Quotes
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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My business is circumference.
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The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.
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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone
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God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.
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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
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Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.
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Pain has an element of blank.
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The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.
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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
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Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.
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It might be easier To fail with land in sight, Than gain my blue peninsula To perish of delight.
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If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.
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I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
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Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your broken Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.
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The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.
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I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.
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I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf.
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God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts. Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles.
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Beauty crowds me till I die.
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A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.