The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
EMILY DICKINSONThe only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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I dwell in possibility.
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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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Forever is composed of nows.
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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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