The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
EMILY DICKINSONTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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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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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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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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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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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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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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To be alive-is Power.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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