Emily Dickinson on death
“I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.”
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The past is not a package one can lay away.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson My friends are my estate.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson To be alive-is Power.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford Let’s always bloom, savor and delight others with our beauty.
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The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
John CalvinJohn Calvin We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.
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