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To be alive──is Power.

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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
Emily Dickinson
Alive
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The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.
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Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.
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Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June - and in it are my friends - every one of them.
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How lucious lies the pea within the pod.
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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.
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... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.
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Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat
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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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If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.
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The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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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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Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth
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The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.
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You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!
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