Judge tenderly of me.
EMILY DICKINSONWe never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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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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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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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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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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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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