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Letter "E" » Emily Dickinson Quotes
«We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -bolts it, And we accost no more»
«I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.»
«We'd never know how high we are, till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky»
«If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.»
«The heart asks pleasure first, and then excuse from pain, and then those little anodynes that deaden suffering»
«We turn not older with years, but newer every day.»
«Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
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Elderly
| Keywords:
Coming of age, gradually, old age, suddenly
«Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity»
«Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
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Prayer
| Keywords:
denied, implement, implemented, implementing, implements, presence
«People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.»
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