Emily Dickinson Quotes, Atheism Quotes, Lovers Quotes

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

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The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until

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I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner’s lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian?

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Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- The blonde Assassin passes on -- The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.

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Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?

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When he tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is acquainted with grief, we listen, for that also is an acquaintance of our own.

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Forever is composed of nows.

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Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

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They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady

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We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—

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Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

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After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.

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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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I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

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I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

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Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .

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Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

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I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

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Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies

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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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