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

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It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.

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Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes

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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

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

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Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as bold As it were rocked in Steel With Arms of Steel at either side— It joins—behind the Veil To what, could We presume The Bridge would cease to be To Our far, vacillating Feet A first Necessity.

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The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.

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Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

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Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

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The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

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A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

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I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves.

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How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!

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Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

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A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.

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My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?

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Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.

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When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.

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Forever is composed of Nows 'Tis not a different time Except for Infiniteness And Latitude of Home

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