Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
EMILY DICKINSONThere’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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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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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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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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To be alive-is Power.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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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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Hope never stops at all.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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