| Quotes |
Topic |
| Age | Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. |
| Anger | Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat. |
| Beauty | Beauty is not caused. It is. |
| Bees | The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy. |
| Bees | His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune; Oh, for a bee's experience Of clovers and of noon! |
| Boldness | Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. |
| Immortality | Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And immortaility. |
| Drinking | Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue. |
| Ecstacy | Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. |
| Ecstacy | For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. |
| Faith | Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency. |
| Fame | Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate. |
| Famous Last Words | I must go in, the fog is rising. |
| Heart | The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die. |
| Heaven | And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours But large enough for me. |
| Help | If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again, I shall not live in vain. |
| Home | Where thou art, that is home. |
| Hope | Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out. |
| Hope | "Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never stops- at all- . |
| Immortality | A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. |
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