"The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-."
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Emily Dickinson quotes (page 14 of 26)
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"The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall."
"A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men"
"The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!"
"Beauty crowds me till I die."
"IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity."
"How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul."
"The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-."
"I dwell in possiblities."
"Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one."
"The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain"
"I dwell in possibilities ."
"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!"
"Common sense is almost as omniscient as God."
"Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide."
"So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along."
"I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense."
"The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-."
"I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf"
"You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself."