Tag: Emily Dickinson
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
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Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Emily Dickinson
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Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
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Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson
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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
Emily Dickinson
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson
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I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.
Emily Dickinson
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Dickinson