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" Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. "
Emily Dickinson
Says
Most
Nothing
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" Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. "
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" Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. "
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" Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. "
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" Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. "
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" The brain is wider than the sky. "
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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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" How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! "
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" That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. "
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" I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. "
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" Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. "
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" Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. "
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" Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. "
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" Forever is composed of nows. "
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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 The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.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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Him
Fear
" Beauty is not caused. It is. "
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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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" Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. "
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" They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. "
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Head
" Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. "
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Love
" My friends are my estate. "
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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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Me
Famous
" 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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" 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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Brother
Sister
Mind
" Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. "
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Without
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" To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. "
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" He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. "
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" In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery. "
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" Where thou art, that is home. "
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" I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves. "
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