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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.
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Be Yourself Grateful
Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.
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Heart Light Tonight
Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Beauty Deep One Liner
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
EMILY DICKINSON

Happiness Time Women
Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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Opinion Sun Truth
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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Book Fire Poetry Reading
Friends are nations in themselves.
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Friendship Nation
Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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Goodness Pleasure Times
The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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Doors Majority Soul
I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.
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Feeling Heart Love Romantic Soul Summer
But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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Body Book Heart
I’ll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, “That must have been the sun!
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Myself Sun Time
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Fame Food
Sunrise: day’s great progenitor.
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Beginning One Liner Sunrise
Fortune befriends the bold.
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Confidence Courage Determination One Liner
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Literature Punishment Talent

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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