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!
EMILY DICKINSONThey say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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I dwell in possibility.
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One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
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The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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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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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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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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I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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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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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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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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Hope never stops at all.
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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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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Friends are nations in themselves.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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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 am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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