Emily Dickinson Quotes, Mean Quotes, Temptation Quotes

You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate.

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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone

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And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes

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There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

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Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

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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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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

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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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That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.

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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

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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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So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

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To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

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To fight aloud, is very brave— But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Wo— Who win, and nations do not see— Who fall — and none observe — Whose dying eyes, no Country Regards with patriot love— We trust, in plumed procession For such, the Angels go— Rank after Rank, with even feet— And Uniforms of Snow.

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How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.

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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!

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I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

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A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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