Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
EMILY DICKINSONI could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I have an appetite for silence.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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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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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
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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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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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