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The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.

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
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Emilia Dickinson
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To shut your eyes is to travel.
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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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A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away
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I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior--for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors--the fairest For Occupation--This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise
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I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.
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Forever is composed of Nows— 'Tis not a different time— Except for Infiniteness— And Latitude of Home
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Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- The blonde Assassin passes on -- The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.
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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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The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.
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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore A privilege I think.
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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
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My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?
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One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
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I dwell in possiblities.
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
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Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.
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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.
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