"I took one Draught of Life - I'll……" — Emily Dickinson
"I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said."
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Emily Dickinson
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362 Quotes by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson has 362 quotes on this site.
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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has…
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control…
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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
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'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!
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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides...
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Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of…
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When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating…
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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some…
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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
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More Draught Quotes
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I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment…
— John Burroughs
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on…
— Maya Angelou
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But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or…
— George Arnold
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One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.
— Frederick Marryat
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
— Zadie Smith
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Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,…
— Thomas Noon Talfourd
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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
— Plato
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At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is…
— Plato
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One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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