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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Emily Dickinson
Dogs
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson
Talent
Celebrity
Merit
Punishment
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Emily Dickinson
Behavior
Man
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
Poetry
Body
Fire
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson
Beauty
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
Poetry
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily Dickinson
Day
Word
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Death
Immortality
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily Dickinson
Time
First
Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson
Home
Art
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Love
Immortality
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson
Truth
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Emily Dickinson
Bees
Will
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Love
Time
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Time