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" To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. "
Emily Dickinson
Time
Love Is
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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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" Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. "
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" To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. "
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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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" 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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" 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 The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.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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" 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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