The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
EMILY DICKINSONHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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Judge tenderly of me.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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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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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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