There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
EMILY DICKINSONThe past is not a package one can lay away.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Hope never stops at all.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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My friends are my estate.
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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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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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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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I dwell in possibility.
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