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Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Demon Done First First Time Little Release Thing Time Whenever

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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Begins Day Dead Just Live Said Say Some Word

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Where thou art, that is home.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Art Home Thou Thou Art Where

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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Chance Earned Expensive Fortune Luck Smile Toil

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Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Heaven Hell Know Need Parting

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

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Age Gradually Old Old Age Suddenly Thought

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I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Am Bold Eyes Glass Guest Had Hair Leaves Like Now Portrait Small Wren

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Beauty Caused

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Because Carriage Could Death He Held Immortality Just Kindly Me Ourselves Stop Stopped

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

~Emily Dickinson

Topics: Slant Tell Truth

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 10th, 1830

Died: May 15th, 1886

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