People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
EMILY DICKINSONI am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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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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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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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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Judge tenderly of me.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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My friends are my estate.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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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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