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Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Happiness — Thoughts on finding joy, contentment, and fulfilment

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“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
— Emily Dickinson
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“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
— Emily Dickinson
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“Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light.”
— Emily Dickinson
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“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”
— Emily Dickinson
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“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee,And revery.The revery alone will do,If bees are few.”
— Emily Dickinson
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“Till I loved I never lived.”
— Emily Dickinson
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