"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet."
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"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."
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"I dwell in possibility."
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"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
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"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."
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"Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane"
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"The brain is wider than the sky."
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"I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me."
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"My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."
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"Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?"
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."
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"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -"
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"A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend."
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"The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care"
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
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"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies."
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"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."
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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."
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"No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -"
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"Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles."
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