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!
EMILY DICKINSONBehavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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My friends are my estate.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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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 lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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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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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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