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The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

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Emily Dickinson
Age: 55 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 10
Died: 1886
Died: May 15
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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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March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy.
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A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.
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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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The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.
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The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?
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I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.
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Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.
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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!
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November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
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I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves.
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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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