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Emily Dickinson Inspirational Quotes (285)

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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
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The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -
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a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.
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Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!
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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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Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.
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There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.
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The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
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Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy.
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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.
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Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods
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The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.
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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.
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