Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
EMILY DICKINSONBut a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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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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Hope never stops at all.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
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I tasted life.
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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