There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
EMILY DICKINSONIf I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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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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The Soul selects her own Society.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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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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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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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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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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