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The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

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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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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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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I dwell in possibility.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.
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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.
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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
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The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.
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This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!
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Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.
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Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.
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Prayer is the little implement through which men reach where presence is denied them.
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The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.
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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
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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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My life closed twice before its close It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.
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