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 DICKINSONPeople need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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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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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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I tasted life.
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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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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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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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