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!
EMILY DICKINSONCommon sense is almost as omniscient as God.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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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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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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Forever is composed of nows.
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To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
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I tasted life.
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To be alive-is Power.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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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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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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My friends are my estate.
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