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

Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Tis the majority In this, as all, prevails Assent, and you are sane; Demur,--you're straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain.

...the fog is rising.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

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.

God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven at last, I'm going all along.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Up to his nest again, I shall not live in vain. -Emily Dickinson.

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--