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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! An...  
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live...  
A wounded deer leaps the highest.  
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, ...  
Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.   Anger
Beauty is not caused. It is.  
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes  
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.  
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Por...  
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.  
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.  
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.  
For Love is Immortality.  
Forever is composed of nows.  
Fortune befriends the bold.  
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew n...  
His Labor is a Chant - his Idleness - a Tune - oh, for a Bee's experie...  
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings t...  
How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your...  
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!   Nature
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.  
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who...  
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.  
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather lo...   Nature
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.  
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know t...  
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever w...  
Is wholesome even for the King.  
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.  
Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.  
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.  
Much Madness is divinest Sense - to a discerning Eye - much Sense - th...  
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.  
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.   Age
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.  
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church I keep it staying at Home With a...  
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.  
Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath t...  
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.  
The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination.   Imagination
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic exper...  
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers...  
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in si...  
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as som...  
To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within...  
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.   Life
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee...  
To whom the mornings are like nights, What must the midnights be!  
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.  
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demo...  
Where thou art, that is home.  
Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.