Emily Dickinson on opinion
“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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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson 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 DickinsonEmily Dickinson I have an appetite for silence.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The Soul selects her own Society.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois I strive for perfection, but Im not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.
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Brad PittBrad Pitt There are no limits to what you can create for you, because your ability to think is unlimited! But you cannot create other people’s lives for them. You cannot think for them, and if you try to force your opinions on others you will only attract like forces to you. So let all others create the life they want.
Rhonda ByrneRhonda Byrne Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.
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