I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
EMILY DICKINSONThe lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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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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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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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
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Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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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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Judge tenderly of me.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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