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Quote by Emily Dickinson
The past is not a package one can lay away. - Emily Dickinson

The past is not a package one can lay away. – Emily Dickinson

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The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy. – Emily Dickinson

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Bees
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Emily Dickinson
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. – Emily Dickinson

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Death
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Emily Dickinson
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You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell. – Emily Dickinson

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Dogs
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Other Quotes from
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Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. – Henry Rollins

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Past

My soul is not a palace of the past… – James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind the Curtain”

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Past

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. – Wendell Berry

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Past

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. – Pliny the Elder

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Past

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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self. – Marian Sandmaier

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Sisters

Dancing is the poetry of the foot. – John Dryden

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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. – Vera Brittain

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Marriage