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• My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.

  Emily Dickinson

  Views, Giving, Forgive Me

  Emily Dickinson (1959). “Selected poems and letters of Emily Dickinson: together with Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst”, Turtleback

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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.

  Emily Dickinson

  Bereavement, Might, Eccentric

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.62, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• The Heart asks Pleasure--first--
  And then--Excuse from Pain

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Heart, Firsts

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.11, First Avenue Editions

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• Elysium is as far as to
  The very nearest room,
  If in that room a friend await
  Felicity of doom.

  Emily Dickinson

  Friendship, Happiness, Elysium

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.24, First Avenue Editions

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• Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Heart, Night

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--

  Emily Dickinson

  Children, Lying, Congratulations

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.431, Harvard University Press

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• November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.

  Emily Dickinson

  Years, Norway, November

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.260, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world!

  Emily Dickinson

  World

  Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.77, 1st World Publishing

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• The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Food, Animal

  "The pedigree of honey" l.1 (ca. 1884)

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• I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

  Emily Dickinson

  Awe

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2352, Delphi Classics

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• Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Christopher E. G. Benfey, Emily Dickinson (1986). “Emily Dickinson: lives of a poet”, George Braziller

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• Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them". Edited by Cristanne Miller,

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• Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

  Emily Dickinson

  Idols, Cooking, Fickle

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1939, Delphi Classics

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• To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sea, Doe, Harbors

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.62, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

  Emily Dickinson

  Common Sense, Common, Omniscient

  Emily Dickinson, Marta L. Werner (1995). “Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing”, p.282, University of Michigan Press

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

  Emily Dickinson

  Halloween, House, Brain

  c.1863 Complete Poems, no.670 (first published 1891).

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• To die before one fears to die may be a boon.

  Emily Dickinson

  May, Boon, Dies

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.98, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

  Emily Dickinson

  God, Spiritual, Memorable

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.317, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

  Emily Dickinson

  Kings, Spring, Insanity

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sympathy, Compassion, Console

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.322, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• I'll tell you how the Sun rose.

  Emily Dickinson

  Rose, Sun

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

  Emily Dickinson

  Want, Proof, Knows

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.62, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Hope is a thing with feathers

  Emily Dickinson

  Feathers

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• The last of Summer is Delight -
  Deterred by Retrospect.
  'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review -
  Enchantment's Syndicate.
  
  To meet it - nameless as it is -
  Without celestial Mail -
  Audacious as without a Knock
  To walk within the Veil.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Enchantment, Delight

  Emily Dickinson, “The Last Of Summer Is Delight”

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• A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die

  Emily Dickinson

  Breathe, Dies

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.671, Harvard University Press

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