Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
EMILY DICKINSONThe sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Judge tenderly of me.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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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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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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Fortune befriends the bold.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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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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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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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 felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Till I loved I never lived.
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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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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