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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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Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.
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A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.
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Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth
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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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Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!
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An altered look about the hills A Tyrian light the village fills A wider sunrise in the dawn A deeper twilight on the lawn A print of a vermilion foot A purple finger on the slope A flippant fly upon the pane A spider at his trade again An added strut in chanticleer A flower expected everywhere.
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Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?
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Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?
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A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
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To be alive──is Power.
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We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.
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Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...
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Good times are always mutual that is what makes good times.
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Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
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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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Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
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