"Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies."
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"Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest."
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"How lucious lies the pea within the pod."
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"Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind."
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"Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term."
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"We meet no Stranger, but Ourself."
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"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me."
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"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
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"Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is."
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"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."
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"Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing."
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"Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem."
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"Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear..."
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"It is better to be the hammer than the anvil."
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"I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work."
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"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."
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"You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor."
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"The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die."
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"Spring is the Period Express from God. Among the other seasons Himself abide, But during March and April None stir abroad Without a cordial interview With God."
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"The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on."
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