Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

Emily Dickinson

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Where Thou art - that - is Home.

Emily Dickinson

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Life is but Life! And Death, but Death!
Bliss is but Bliss, and Breath but Breath!

Emily Dickinson

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You think my gait 'spasmodic' - I am in danger - Sir - You think me 'uncontrolled' - I have no Tribunal.

Emily Dickinson

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To shut your eyes is to travel.

Emily Dickinson

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A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

Emily Dickinson

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I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

Emily Dickinson

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I wonder if it hurts to live,
And if they have to try,
And whether, could they choose between,
They would not rather die.

Emily Dickinson

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Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me.

Emily Dickinson

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We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.

The heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing,
Did not ourselves the cubits warp
For fear to be a king.

Emily Dickinson

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