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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. "
Emily Dickinson
Child
Affection
She
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" Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. "
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Celebrity
Famous
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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. "
Emily Dickinson
Handsome
Perfect
I Am
" 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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Nature
Will
Prairie
" Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. "
Emily Dickinson
Succeed
Who
Never
" Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. "
Emily Dickinson
Knowing
Dawn
Door
" There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. "
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Us
Away
Book
" Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. "
Emily Dickinson
Never
Hope
Words
" People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. "
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Psychic
Hard
People
" 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. "
Emily Dickinson
Sight
Need
Head
" To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. "
Emily Dickinson
Time
Love Is
Leaves
" A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. "
Emily Dickinson
Live
Just
Dead
" I dwell in possibility. "
Emily Dickinson
Dwell
Possibility
Inspirational
" Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. "
Emily Dickinson
Done
First
Little
" Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. "
Emily Dickinson
Tell
Truth Is
Delightful
" Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. "
Emily Dickinson
She
Harm
Mother
" I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. "
Emily Dickinson
Love Is
Life
Immortality
" 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. "
Emily Dickinson
Heaven
Him
Fear
" Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. "
Emily Dickinson
Death
Immortality
Stop
" I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. "
Emily Dickinson
You
Going
Heaven
" Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. "
Emily Dickinson
Sympathy
Die
Love
" If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
Head
Top
Poetry
" Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. "
Emily Dickinson
Shifting
Famous
Food
" Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. "
Emily Dickinson
Age
Suddenly
Thought
" I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. "
Emily Dickinson
Name
Me
Famous
" Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only! "
Emily Dickinson
Song
Bird
Faith
" Tell the truth, but tell it slant. "
Emily Dickinson
Truth
Tell
Slant
" Dying is a wild night and a new road. "
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Dying
New
Wild
" Forever is composed of nows. "
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Time
Composed
Forever
" Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. "
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Dawn
Without
Romantic
" Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. "
Emily Dickinson
Love Is
Creation
Death