"One need not be a Chamber — to……" — Emily Dickinson
"One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted— One need not be a House— The Brain — has Corridors — surpassing Material Place— Far safer, of a Midnight — meeting External Ghost— Than an Interior — Confronting— That cooler — Host. Far safer, through an Abbey — gallop— The Stones a'chase— Than Moonless — One's A'self encounter— In lonesome place— Ourself — behind ourself — Concealed— Should startle — most...."
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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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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can…
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which…
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Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information…
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In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly
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I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth,…
— Jack Whitehall
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I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to…
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Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton…
— Karina Longworth
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I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As…
— Jack Irons
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Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great…
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