Emily Dickinson Quotes, Wish Quotes, Peers Quotes

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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Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

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The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

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Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

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A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

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We turn not older with years but newer every day.

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Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

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I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.

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To die before one fears to die may be a boon.

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My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands

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Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

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Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

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How lucious lies the pea within the pod.

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The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.

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How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

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God, keep me from what they call 'households,'

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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

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The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.

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