The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
EMILY DICKINSONSunrise: day’s great progenitor.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Till I loved I never lived.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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My friends are my estate.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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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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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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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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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
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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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I have an appetite for silence.
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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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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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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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I tasted life.
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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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The brain is wider than the sky.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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