"A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead." — Emily Dickinson

"A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead."

— Emily Dickinson

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362 Quotes by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson has 362 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has…
I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control…
Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!
To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides...
Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of…
When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating…
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some…
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

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More Bayonets Quotes

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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. — Napoleon Bonaparte
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. — Boris Yeltsin
The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about. — Alexander Suvorov
By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes! — Unknown Author
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents....… — Ludwig von Mises
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets. — Ludwig von Mises
It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line. — George S. Patton
Where the hell do you put the bayonet? — Chesty Puller
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight… — George S. Patton
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population… — Friedrich Engels

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