Emily Dickinson Quotes, Death Quotes

I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

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I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.

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The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

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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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Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

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Remorse is memory awake.

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I felt it shelter to speak to you.

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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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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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Friends are nations in themselves.

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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

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The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - 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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I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.

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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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Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

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I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again

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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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Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

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I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

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