"They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father.""
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"I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever."
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"The hearts that never lean must fall."
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"The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead."
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"How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!"
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"Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain."
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"I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here."
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"A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun."
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"It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God."
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"How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!"
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"You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure."
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"Nothing is the force that renovates the World."
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"To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe."
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"We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—"
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"God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play."
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"A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides"
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"It is finished, is never said of us"
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"Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true"
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"Love is everything. And that's all we know about it."
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"I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit."
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