Quote by Emily Dickinson
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation,

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. – Emily Dickinson

Other quotes by Emily Dickinson

I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch. – Emily Dickinson

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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

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Other Quotes from
Death
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. – Carl Jung

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If you make every game a life and death proposition, youre going to have problems. For one thing, youll be dead a lot. – Dean Smith

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Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. – Wilson Mizner

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And in my heart, sweet Autumn, thou art the awakener of many, many things. At thy touch the deep fountain of memory is stirred, and its shadowy bank is thronged with many cherished images and hallowed recollections of the Past! – Elizabeth J. Eames, “An Autumn Reverie,” October 1840

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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. – Max Beerbohm

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift

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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. – Agatha Christie

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