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.
EMILY DICKINSONI do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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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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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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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 imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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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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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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I tasted life.
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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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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To be alive-is Power.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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