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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

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Hope is a thing with feathers

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

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Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.

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Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb

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I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

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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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Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

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Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

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I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

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Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

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The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

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Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

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The Truth never flaunted a sign.

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I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

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The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

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The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

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