The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
EMILY DICKINSONHeart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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I tasted life.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
EMILY DICKINSON







