I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
EMILY DICKINSONThere is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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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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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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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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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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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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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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