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Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone
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Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your broken Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.
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I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way
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It is finished, is never said of us.
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A sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.
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The blunder is to estimate,- 'Eternity is Then,' 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.
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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.
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Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies.
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To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.
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He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.
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Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.
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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
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November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
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What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?
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Pain has an element of blank.
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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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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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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
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I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -
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Love - thou art Veiled - A few - behold thee - Smile - and alter - and prattle - and die - Bliss - were an Oddity - without thee - Nicknamed by God - Eternity -
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