There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
EMILY DICKINSONI’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!
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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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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Hope never stops at all.
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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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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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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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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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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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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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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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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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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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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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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