Emily Dickinson Quotes, Death Quotes, Winning Quotes

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

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You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!

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The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

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Somewhere in my soul a thought went up in my mind today that I have had before, but did not finish, some way back, I could not fix the year. Nor where it went, nor why it came the second time to me, nor definetly what it was, have I the art to say. But somewhere in my soul, I know I've met the thing before; it just reminded me-' twas all'-and came my way no more.

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My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?

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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

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I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.

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I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

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Love is everything. And that's all we know about it.

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The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal

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Till I loved I never lived.

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My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June - and in it are my friends - every one of them.

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Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

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I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

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Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

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That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

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The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

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The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.

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To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

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