"God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you."
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Emily Dickinson quotes (page 21 of 26)
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"God, keep me from what they call 'households,'"
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"The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-."
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"The only secret people keep is immortality."
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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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"I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room"
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"What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door."
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"Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb"
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"After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace."
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"Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity."
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"By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark."
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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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"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring ,Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again, And who will call the wild-briar fair? Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now, And deck thee with holly's sheen, That, when December blights thy brow, He still may leave thy garland green."
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"Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain."
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"September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher."
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"They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings."
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"His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush."
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"When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person."
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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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"Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --"
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