Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

Emily Dickinson

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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Emily Dickinson

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in this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.

Emily Dickinson

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Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

Emily Dickinson

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Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

Emily Dickinson

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I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

Emily Dickinson

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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Emily Dickinson

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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

Emily Dickinson

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My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

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I fear a Man of frugal speech -
I fear a Silent Man -
Haranguer - I can overtake -
Or Babbler - entertain -

But He who weigheth - While the Rest -
Expend their furthest pound -
Of this Man - I am wary -
I fear that He is Grand -

Emily Dickinson

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