"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home."

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"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home."

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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

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"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods."

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Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain;Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,How could I seek the empty world again?"

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"For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it."

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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

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