The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
EMILY DICKINSONThey 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.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Till I loved I never lived.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time. Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years.
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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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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 can stay young as long as you learn.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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I tasted life.
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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 felt it shelter to speak to you.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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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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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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