Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Emily Dickinson
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
I dwell in possibility.
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
Glee! The great storm is over!
Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved it proves too There was no Melody.
Where thou art that is Home.
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
The soul should always stand ajar ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.