Now I sometimes wonder how things might have turned out differently if I'd not made that decision, but you don't really get anywhere when you think too much about stuff like that.
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but grow and gather to itself such explosi... EMILY I am a diamond But people see me as gold Honestly, I wanna be silver M -I would die for you -You lie -If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t... M Morals; the pathetic answer to authority Seen two gorillas sharing a banana? M. COCHET M. I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. M. M. COADY Honest people don't hide their deeds. EMILY BRONTE I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and... EMILY DICKINSON Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. EMILY DICKINSON Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. EMILY DICKINSON Your body is your body; it's natural. Learn to love yourself for it. EMILY RATAJKOWSKI My friends are my estate. EMILY DICKINSON Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion... EMILY GIFFIN I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and e... EMILY MORTIMER I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time! EMILY OSMENT Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br... EMILY BRONTE It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw. EMILY CARR A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy. EMILY BLUNT They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as m... EMILY DICKINSON Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh... EMILY CARR Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, ... EMILY BERRINGTON I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his brie... EMILY DICKINSON Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. EMILY DICKINSON Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves a... EMILY DICKINSON I'm nobody, who are you? EMILY DICKINSON A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. EMILY DICKINSON Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. EMILY DICKINSON I dwell in possibility. EMILY DICKINSON A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend... EMILY DICKINSON I'm a big zombie buff. EMILY VANCAMP How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that... EMILY OSTER I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggl... EMILY WATSON Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dain... EMILY DICKINSON May she wake in torment!’ [...] ‘Why, she’s a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there - ... EMILY BRONTë Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. EMILY BRONTë Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and ... EMILY BRONTë Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did no... EMILY BRONTë Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbea... EMILY BRONTë You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence! EMILY BRONTë It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss m... EMILY BRONTë It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. EMILY BRONTë She burned too bright for this world. EMILY BRONTë Terror made me cruel . . . EMILY BRONTë It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sic... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and yo... EMILY CARROLL How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! EMILY DICKINSON My first lip balms were Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, which, correct me if I'm wrong, sometimes had l... EMILY WEISS The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking th... EMILY DESCHANEL Your bikini should compliment your dress, and they should work together to frame your body. It's... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson. EMILY DICKENSON Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out. EMILY DICKINSON Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call... EMILY DICKINSON Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But Microscopes are prudent
In an emerg... EMILY DICKINSON Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. EMILY KIMBROUGH Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the ... EMILY BRONTë He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. EMILY BRONTë Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br... EMILY BRONTë One need not be a chamber to be haunted. EMILY DICKINSON Forever is composed of nows. EMILY DICKINSON A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other... EMILY BRONTë I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tel... EMILY DICKINSON Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. EMILY DICKINSON You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray... 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EMILY BRONTE Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- EMILY DICKINSON His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon... EMILY DICKINSON Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, bu... EMILY MILLER Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, Underneath their fine incisions, stirs ... EMILY DICKINSON Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain ... EMILY DICKINSON A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into somethi... EMILY BRONTE Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's e... EMILY CARR Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's... 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His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of ... EMILY DICKINSON Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From ... EMILY DICKINSON God preaches, a noted clergyman,
And the sermon is never long;
So instead of getting to heaven... EMILY DICKINSON And so upon this wise I prayed,--
Great Spirit, give to me
A heaven not so large as yours
... EMILY DICKINSON Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe... EMILY DICKINSON "Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the word... EMILY DICKINSON There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons--
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of C... EMILY DICKINSON If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk. EMILY DICKINSON The mountain at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little,--
... EMILY DICKINSON The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
... EMILY DICKINSON Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive... EMILY DICKINSON Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'Ti... EMILY DICKINSON The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocrac... EMILY DICKINSON Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition
So clear... EMILY DICKINSON Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. EMILY BRONTE Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed. EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. EMILY DICKINSON For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. EMILY DICKINSON Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. EMILY DICKINSON Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have ... EMILY POST For Love is Immortality. EMILY DICKINSON I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gav... EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and nev... EMILY DICKINSON A wounded deer leaps highest,
I've heard the hunter tell;
'Tis but the ecstasy of death,
And then th... EMILY DICKINSON Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing. EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors su... EMILY DICKINSON I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat. EMILY DICKINSON People generally didn't cheat in good relationships. EMILY GIFFIN