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His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.

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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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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Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!
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Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes
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Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...
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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 had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.
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That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.
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Which Anguish was the utterest--then-- To perish, or to live?
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Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.
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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
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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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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.
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Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.
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Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell
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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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After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.
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Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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Answer July- Where is the Bee- Where is the Blush- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July- Where is the Seed- Where is the Bud- Where is the May- Answer Thee-Me-
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