Emily Dickinson Quotes, Light Quotes, Solitude Quotes

I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.

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We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

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To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

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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 wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

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My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

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The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.

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Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it

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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

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Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.

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It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.

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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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... I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.

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I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

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Eternity' is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Ramble? Divides abode with me? No Friend have I that so persists As this Eternity.

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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.

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Pain has an element of blank

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Action is redemption.

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When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.

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If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.

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