R.H.Dickinson Quotes

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

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

Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.

The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!

You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.

Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly.

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.

We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.

Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

Spring is the Period Express from God.

The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

Individuals who are uncomfortable with themselves sometimes emit vibes that make others uncomfortable.

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.

Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.

Friends are nations in themselves.

Hope . . . never stops at all.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

Love is like life-merely longer.

Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -

... I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.

Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.

Home is the definition of God.

The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -