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Quotes by Emily Dickinson

  • If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
  • Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.
  • Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.
  • We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
  • My friends are my estate.
  • I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
  • They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
  • Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.
  • I dwell in possibility...
  • There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--
  • Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
  • A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.