"Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom."
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Emily Dickinson quotes (page 25 of 26)
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"Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall."
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"No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings."
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"He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him."
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"Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer"
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"Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry."
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"Somewhere in my soul a thought went up in my mind today that I have had before, but did not finish, some way back, I could not fix the year. Nor where it went, nor why it came the second time to me, nor definetly what it was, have I the art to say. But somewhere in my soul, I know I've met the thing before; it just reminded me-' twas all'-and came my way no more."
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"My business is circumference."
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"The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year."
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"Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal."
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"I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die."
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"I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means."
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"Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes"
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"I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid."
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"A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot."
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"A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find"
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"The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow."
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"Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God."
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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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"Forever is composed of Nows 'Tis not a different time Except for Infiniteness And Latitude of Home"
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