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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Inspirational, Life

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.

Emily Dickinson
Light, Goes On, Poet

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Emily Dickinson
Sunset, Cups
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.174, First Avenue Editions

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Wise
" 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Emily Dickinson
Encouraging, Spiritual, Not Giving Up
Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.

Emily Dickinson
Truth, Sun, Opinion
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.56, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Emily Dickinson
Beauty, Children
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Alfred Leete Hampson (1929). “Further poems of Emily Dickinson: withheld from publication by her sister Lavinia”

I have an appetite for silence.

Emily Dickinson
Silence, Appetite

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.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Success
Emily Dickinson, “We Never Know How High We Are (1176)”

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Inspirational, Life
"If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Emily Dickinson
Believe, Men, Thinking

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Inspiring, Truth

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

Emily Dickinson
Light, Genius, Hats

Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.

Emily Dickinson
Heaven, Failing, Found
Emily Dickinson, “Who Has Not Found The Heaven - Below”

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Emily Dickinson
Age, Aging, Old Age

Love is everything. And that's all we know about it.

Emily Dickinson
Love Is, Knows

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Emily Dickinson
Nature, Adversity, Writing

The Soul selects her own Society.

Emily Dickinson
Soul
"The Soul selects her own society" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Sympathy, Death
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

The brain is wider than the sky.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Learning, Sky
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Emily Dickinson
Good Luck, Gambling, Toil
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

Emily Dickinson
Parent, Scary, Confusing

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

Emily Dickinson
Heart, Doe, Care
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.405, Harvard University Press

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Women, Writing

Fortune befriends the bold.

Emily Dickinson
Confidence, Courage, Determination

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