Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
EMILY DICKINSONTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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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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Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time. Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years.
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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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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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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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Hope never stops at all.
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I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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