The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
EMILY DICKINSONI do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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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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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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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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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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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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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
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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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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still…nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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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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