Emily Dickinson Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Atheism Quotes

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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... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.

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Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.

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Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

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After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.

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I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!

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I tasted life.

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The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.

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A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

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The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

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The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.

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Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.

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We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—

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Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

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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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You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.

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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

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I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

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The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.

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