"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness."
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"Publication - is the auction of the mind."
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"Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you’re lagging, I may remember him!"
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"I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-."
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"There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else."
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"To be alive──is Power."
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"Dying is a wild night and a new road."
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"The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed."
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"Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed."
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"Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away."
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"Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die."
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"My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word"
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"You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me."
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"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King."
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"My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?"
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"Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not."
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"A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead."
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"When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground."
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"Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun."
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"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name."
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