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Friends are nations in themselves.

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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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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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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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It is finished, is never said of us
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Which Anguish was the utterest--then-- To perish, or to live?
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Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.
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Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!
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To be alive is power existence in itself without a further function omnipotence.
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God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.
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Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.
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September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.
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The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.
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A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
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The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know.
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a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.
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Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer
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I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.
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You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!
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