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> [A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/a-precious-mouldering-pleasure-t-is-to-meet-an-antique-book-in-just/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

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> [“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/a-precious-mouldering-pleasure-tis-to-meet-an-antique-book-in-just/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

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> [We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/we-outgrow-love-like-other-things-and-put-it-in-a-drawer-till-it-an/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

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## Other authors on Antiques

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## More by Emily Dickinson

> [A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/a-light-exists-in-spring-not-present-on-the-year-at-any-other-period/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/i-could-not-prove-the-years-had-feet-yet-confident-they-run/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/how-softly-summer-shuts-without-the-creaking-of-a-door/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [“Could you tell me how to grow--or is it unconveyed--like Melody--or Witchcraft?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/could-you-tell-me-how-to-grow-or-is-it-unconveyed-like-melody-or/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/it-might-be-lonelier-without-the-loneliness-i-m-so-accustomed-to-my/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [“Inebriate of Air — am I — And Debauchee of Dew — Reeling — thro endless summer days — From Inns of Molten Blue —”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/inebriate-of-air-am-i-and-debauchee-of-dew-reeling-thro-endless/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/luck-is-not-chance-it-s-toil-fortune-s-expensive-smile-is-earned/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/the-abdication-of-belief-makes-the-behavior-small-better-an-ignis/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/longing-is-like-a-seed-that-wrestles-in-the-ground/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/he-ate-and-drank-the-precious-words-his-spirit-grew-robust-he-knew-no/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/i-see-thee-better-in-the-dark-i-do-not-need-a-light-the-love-of-thee/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/one-step-at-a-time-is-all-it-takes-to-get-you-there/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [“Whose fingers string the stalactite- Who counts the Wampum of the night”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/whose-fingers-string-the-stalactite-who-counts-the-wampum-of-the-night/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [My life closed twice before its close](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/my-life-closed-twice-before-its-close/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

> [Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-dickinson/until-you-have-loved-you-cannot-become-yourself/)

[Emily Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-dickinson/)

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