Emily Dickinson Short Quotes

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The only secret people keep
Is Immortality.

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Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock.

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The second half of joy
Is shorter than the first.

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A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides—

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We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

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The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.

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Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

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Ourself behind ourself concealed
Should startle most.

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The truth I do not dare to know
I muffle with a jest.

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The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

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I'll tell you how the Sun rose —
A Ribbon at a time—

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How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.

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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

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Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.

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A Letter is a joy of Earth —
It is denied the Gods —.

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I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.

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Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

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

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The Amherst heart is plain and whole and permanent and warm.

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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

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Bees are black, with gilt surcingles—
Buccaneers of buzz.
A surcingle is a belt or girth

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

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Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

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It is not dying hurts us so, —
'T is living hurts us more.

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