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I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

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A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die

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God, keep me from what they call 'households,'

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When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.

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The hearts that never lean must fall.

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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

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Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.

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The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

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Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

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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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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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IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

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We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—

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This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---

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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

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Just a turn of the doorknob, and there lies freedom.

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Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?

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To be alive──is Power.

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