There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
EMILY DICKINSONBecause I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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 things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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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 imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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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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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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I dwell in possibility.
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I tasted life.
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