Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

"How strange that nature does knock, and yet does not intrude!"

Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain."

Emily Dickinson

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all."

Emily Dickinson

"To be alive is Power Existence in itself Without a further function Omnipotence enough."

Emily Dickinson

"If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things."

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"Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed."

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"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Emily Dickinson

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."

Emily Dickinson

"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."

Emily Dickinson

"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!"

Emily Dickinson

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

Emily Dickinson

"To live is so startling it leaves time for little else."

Emily Dickinson

"Faith - is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not."

Emily Dickinson

"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."

Emily Dickinson

"I imagine, therefore I belong and am free."

Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson

"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."

Emily Dickinson

"To be alive is Power Existence in itself Without a further function Omnipotence enough."

Emily Dickinson

"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine."

Emily Dickinson

"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."

Emily Dickinson

"Faith - is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not."

Emily Dickinson

"I imagine, therefore I belong and am free."

Emily Dickinson

"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."

Emily Dickinson