Emily Dickinson Quotes, Brain Quotes, Sound Quotes

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

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When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.

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To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.

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She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

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Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

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The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.

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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

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Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!

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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--

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Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.

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Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

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Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

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The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

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Just a turn of the doorknob, and there lies freedom.

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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

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Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

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And you dropt, lost, When something broke-- And let you from a Dream

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