We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
EMILY DICKINSONTruth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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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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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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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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Forever is composed of nows.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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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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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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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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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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Till I loved I never lived.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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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.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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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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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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