"Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell."
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"The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief."
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"She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side."
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"Remorse is memory awake."
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"Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?"
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"Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety."
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"The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more."
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"We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg."
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"Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems."
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"Judge tenderly of me."
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"Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies."
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"Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat."
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"Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul"
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"Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength."
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"I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude."
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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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"Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime."
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"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him."
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"Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life."
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"The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest."
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