Emily Dickinson Quotes
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You don't have to be a house to be haunted.
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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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God, keep me from what they call 'households'.
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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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His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!
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How lucious lies the pea within the pod.
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
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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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Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
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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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Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?
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November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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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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Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. ’T is the majority In this, as all, prevails. Assent, and you are sane; Demur,-you ’re straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain.
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We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.
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There is a Zone whose even Years No Solstice interrupt - Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon Whose perfect Seasons wait - Whose Summer set in Summer, till The Centuries of June And Centuries of August cease And Consciousness - is Noon.
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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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To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.