Emily Dickinson - Life Quotes

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If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

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My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —
In Corners — till a Day
The Owner passed — identified —
And carried Me away — And now We roam in Sovereign Woods —
And now We hunt the Doe —
And every time I speak for Him —
The Mountains straight reply —

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Nods from the Gilded pointers -
Nods from the Seconds slim -
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life -
And Him -

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No Life can pompless pass away -
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here -

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As Summer into Autumn slips
And yet we sooner say
"The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest
We turn the sun away,

And almost count it an Affront
The presence to concede
Of one however lovely, not
The one that we have loved -

So we evade the charge of Years
On one attempting shy
The Circumvention of the Shaft
Of Life's Declivity.

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She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

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I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

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I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you don't know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch.

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I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

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Our little kinsmen after rain
In plenty may be seen,
a pink and pulpy multitude
The tepid ground upon;
A needless life if seemed to me
Until a little bird
As to a hospitality
Advanced and breakfasted.

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The Life we have is very great.
The Life that we shall see
Surpasses it, we know, because
It is Infinity,
But when all Space has been beheld
And all Dominion shown
The smallest Human Heart's extent
Reduces it to none.

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Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

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I felt my life with both my hands
To see if it was there —...

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My life closed twice before its close —
It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me
So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

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The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.

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I took one Draught of Life —
I'll tell you what I paid —
Precisely an existence —
The market price, they said.
They weighed me, Dust by Dust —
They balanced Film with Film,
Then handed me my Being's worth—
A single Dram of Heaven!

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A death-blow is a life-blow to some
Who, till they died, did not alive become;
Who, had they lived, had died, but when
They died, vitality begun.

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That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.

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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

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Love is anterior to life—
Posterior to death—
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of earth.

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Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the culprit,—Life!

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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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Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.

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Friday I tasted life. It was a vast morsel. A Circus passed the house—still I feel the red in my mind though the drums are out. The Lawn is full of south and the odours tangle, and I hear to-day for the first time the river in the tree.

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