"A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think."
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"I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had -- But I -- was twice as bold -- I aimed by Pebble -- but Myself Was all the one that fell -- Was it Goliath -- was too large -- Or was myself -- too small?"
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"Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself."
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"How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world!"
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"It is easy to work when the soul is at play."
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"But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse."
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"Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence."
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"How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?"
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"There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes."
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"To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim."
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"The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind."
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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 never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-."
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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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"I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size."
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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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"His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!"
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"This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me."
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"Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God."
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"Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat."
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