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Emily Dickinson
United States
10 Dec 1830 // 15 May 1886
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10 Poems
20 Quotes
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On Fathers:
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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On Truth:
Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.
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On Soul:
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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On Beauty:
Beauty is not caused. It is.
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On Live (To):
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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On Talk:
Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
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On Heart:
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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On Soul:
The Soul selects her own Society.
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On Love:
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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On Challenge:
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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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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