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" Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. "
Emily Dickinson
Finite
Infinite
Venture
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" If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. "
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" I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision. "
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" Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. "
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" I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. "
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" I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind. "
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" Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. "
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" Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. "
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" I dwell in possibility. "
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" Forever is composed of nows. "
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" Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. "
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" God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally. "
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" We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came. "
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Parting
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Dying
New
Wild
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