A Quote by Emily Dickinson

Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs.

Emily Dickinson

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Enough Never Occurs Suppose Sweetness Vast

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Emily Dickinson
American - Poet
December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light.

Kate DiCamillo

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

Galileo Galilei

You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

Anne Carson

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

Barbara Kingsolver

Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.

Hayley Mills

I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.

John Gay

She knew he was angry, but she couldn't stop laughing. "Forgive me, Po. I was only trying to get your attention." "And I suppose it never occurs to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you'd start by knocking down the house.

Kristin Cashore

The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.

Junot Diaz

What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

William Wilberforce

The contrast between the two, the sweetness and the badness, wrenches the heart of the lover as such sweetness on its own would not, and the lover shudders all the more at dread of the beloved's recklessness, for the sake of the sweetness that is there, and the shudder only makes more violent the shuddering that announces love.