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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.

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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Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.
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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
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