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Own Quotes by Emily Dickinson
- Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.
- Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.
- To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction-…
- I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas…
- Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
- The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
- I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I…
- The Soul selects her own Society.
- A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand…
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