But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
EMILY DICKINSONThe soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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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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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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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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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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I tasted life.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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Till I loved I never lived.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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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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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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