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Speech is one symptom of affection and silence one the perfect communication is heard of none.

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
Ai-mi-li Ti-chin-sen
Emilia Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
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Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --
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Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.
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A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.
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LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!
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We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.
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I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!
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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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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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After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.
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Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.
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Forever is made up of nows.
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If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.
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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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Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
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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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Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.
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