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Fortune befriends the bold.

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson
Age: 55 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 10
Died: 1886
Died: May 15
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Writer
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Ai-mi-li Ti-chin-sen
Emilia Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Literature
Fear
Boldness
Bold
Determination
Fortune
Confidence
Courage

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Which Anguish was the utterest--then-- To perish, or to live?
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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My life closed twice before its close It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.
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A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.
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How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.
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Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as bold As it were rocked in Steel With Arms of Steel at either side— It joins—behind the Veil To what, could We presume The Bridge would cease to be To Our far, vacillating Feet A first Necessity.
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Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.
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