Emily Dickinson on freedom
“I imagine therefore I belong and am free.”
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Fortune befriends the bold.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Hope never stops at all.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson You can stay young as long as you learn.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson
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We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
Cesar ChavezCesar Chavez It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes into the foreground.
Friedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.
Calvin CoolidgeCalvin Coolidge Based on my experience, I can say that India country can be freed of corruption.
Narendra ModiNarendra Modi As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
Friedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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