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"Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity."
"Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!"
"March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy."
"I imagine therefore I belong and am free."
"The past is not a package one can lay away."
"There is no frigate like a book"
"Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door."
"I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me."
"Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye."
"I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names."
"Eternity' is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Ramble? Divides abode with me? No Friend have I that so persists As this Eternity."
"The revery alone will do If bees are few."
"Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them."
"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."
"The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies."
"Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency."
"I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior--for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors--the fairest For Occupation--This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise"
"The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?"
"The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder."
"It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble."