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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.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson Judge tenderly of me.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson
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