We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
EMILY DICKINSONLove is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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My friends are my estate.
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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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I dwell in possibility.
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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still…nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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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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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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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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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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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I tasted life.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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To be alive-is Power.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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