She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way and that; she must not shout; and she must not, while wearing her bridal veil, smoke a cigarette


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EMILY DICKINSON
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
EMILY DICKINSON
You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray...
EMILY BRONTë
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the ...
EMILY DICKINSON
In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battle...
EMILY THORNE
This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me
EMILY DICKINSON
That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most imperso...
EMILY MAGUIRE
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
EMILY BRONTë
Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have p...
EMILY BRONTë
Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot...
EMILY BRONTë
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and ...
EMILY BRONTë
The Brain is wider than the sky-.
EMILY DICKINSON
Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
EMILY DICKINSON
Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON
Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
EMILY DICKINSON
The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
EMILY DICKINSON
Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, ...
EMILY BRONTE
Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
EMILY PRAGER
Beauty is not caused. It is.
EMILY DICKINSON
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
EMILY DICKINSON
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me ...
EMILY BRONTE
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 is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
EMILY DICKINSON
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up...
EMILY CARR
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON
Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
EMILY DICKINSON