Emily Dickinson Quotes, Swings Quotes, Fearless Quotes

Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

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How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!

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The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

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To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

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Publication - is the auction of the mind.

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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

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My business is circumference.

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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

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One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

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I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

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To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

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You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

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I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

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The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain

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The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.

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Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer

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It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.

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Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

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