Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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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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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Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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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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Friends are nations in themselves.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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I tasted life.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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Hope never stops at all.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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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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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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