"The sailor cannot see the north / but…" — Emily Dickinson
"The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can."
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Emily Dickinson
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362 Quotes by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson has 362 quotes on this site.
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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has…
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control…
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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
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'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!
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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides...
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Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of…
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When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating…
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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some…
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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty…
— Jacques Barzun
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Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes,…
— Rajneesh
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He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
— Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a…
— B.F. Skinner
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Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.
— Joel Osteen
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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see…
— Albert Einstein
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Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one…
— Wayne Dyer
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised…
— Mark Twain
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