But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
EMILY DICKINSONI could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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To be alive-is Power.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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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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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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