Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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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Forever is composed of nows.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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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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Till I loved I never lived.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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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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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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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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