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Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson
Age: 55 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 10
Died: 1886
Died: May 15
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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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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!
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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
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God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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Love is like life-merely longer.
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You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.
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To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
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To shut your eyes is to travel.
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To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction- To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the the Sun Were shining in your Hand.
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I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.
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Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.
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A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
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The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.
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