Emily Dickinson Quotes, Heart Quotes, Wish Quotes

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

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The hearts that never lean must fall.

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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

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The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.

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You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

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I felt it shelter to speak to you.

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

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To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

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A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.

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No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -

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Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

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I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose.

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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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One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.

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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

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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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I'll tell you how the Sun rose.

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

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