There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
EMILY DICKINSONThe only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
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I’ll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, “That must have been the sun!
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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To be alive-is Power.
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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 only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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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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