Emily Dickinson Quotes
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.
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You don't have to be a house to be haunted.
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Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?
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Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -
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It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.
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Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?
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Beauty crowds me till I die.
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A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.
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Action is redemption.
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In this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
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A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -
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November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
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To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.
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A sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.
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A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.
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I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
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A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.
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Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.