The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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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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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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