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.
EMILY DICKINSONBut a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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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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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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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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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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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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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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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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