Emily Dickinson Quotes
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.
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Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.
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We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.
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I'll tell you how the Sun rose.
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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.
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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
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No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -
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Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
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The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
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They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady.
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I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!
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Remorse is memory awake.
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There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.
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Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life if seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.
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They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."
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Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.
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I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.
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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And as the Rose appears, Robin is gone. Yet do I not repine Knowing that Bird of mine Though flown - Learneth beyond the sea Melody new for me And will return.
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This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!
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Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.