The Collected Poems
How High We Are (1)
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 c...
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The Collected Poems
Emily Dickinson
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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