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I don't profess to be profound but I do lay claim to common sense.
Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson
Age: 55 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 10
Died: 1886
Died: May 15
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Ai-mi-li Ti-chin-sen
Emilia Dickinson
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The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.
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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
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The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.
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PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.
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How lucious lies the pea within the pod.
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The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.
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Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?
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The Truth never flaunted a sign.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.
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When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.
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'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly.
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A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides
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When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth for His mercy endureth forever, with confiding revulsion.
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The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.
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