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!
EMILY DICKINSONIf I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
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Hope never stops at all.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
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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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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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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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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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