The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
EMILY DICKINSONPeople need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still…nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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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.
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To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.
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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time. Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years.
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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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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.
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