Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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A Bog -- affronts my shoe --What else have Bogs -- to do --
The only Trade they know --
The splashing Men!
Emily Dickinson
Sic transit gloria mundi,"
"How doth the busy bee,"
"Dum vivimus vivamus,"
I stay mine enemy!
Emily Dickinson
Too few the mornings be,
Too scant the nights.
Emily Dickinson
And Spirit turned unto the Dust
"Old Friend, thou knowest me,"
And Time went out to tell the News
And met Eternity.
Emily Dickinson
If certain, when this life was out --
That yours and mine, should be
I'd toss it yonder, like a Rind,
And take Eternity --
Emily Dickinson
Light swung the silver fleeces
"Peniel" Hills beyond,
And the bewildered Gymnast
Found he had worsted God!
Emily Dickinson
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