The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
EMILY DICKINSONDogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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To be alive-is Power.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
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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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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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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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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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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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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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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 am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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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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I dwell in possibility.
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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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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Till I loved I never lived.
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The Soul selects her own Society.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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