The only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
EMILY DICKINSONDoes 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.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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Till I loved I never lived.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Hope never stops at all.
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The past is not a package one can lay away.
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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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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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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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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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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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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
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