Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
EMILY DICKINSONFriends are nations in themselves.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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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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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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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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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
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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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