Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Twin loaves of bread have just been born into the world under my auspices. Fine children, the image of their mother. And here, my dear friend, is the glory.
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Home is the definition of God.
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Till I loved I never lived.
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Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.
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My love for those I love – not many – not very many, but don't I love them so?
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Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.
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To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!
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Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content.
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Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.
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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
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I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe
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I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.
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Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace A pensive Custom it becomes Enlarging Loneliness. Antiquest felt at Noon When August burning low Arise this spectral Canticle Repose to typify Remit as yet no Grace No Furrow on the Glow Yet a Druidic Difference Enhances Nature now.
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I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me
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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.
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Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true.
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As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity.
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Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!
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The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.
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Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.
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What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been.
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God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.
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You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.
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You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!