Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
EMILY DICKINSONThe things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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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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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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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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The brain is wider than the sky.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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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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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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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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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.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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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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To be alive-is Power.
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