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Quote by Emily Dickinson
I like a look of Agony, because I know its true -- men do not sham

I like a look of Agony, because I know its true — men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe — – Emily Dickinson

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His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part. – Emily Dickinson

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Secrets
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Emily Dickinson
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This is the Hour of Lead —
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow —
First –Chill –then Stupor –then the letting go –. – Emily Dickinson

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Snow
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Emily Dickinson
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Naked I came from my mothers womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. – Bible

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. – Sir Richard Francis Burton

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Suffering is part of the divine idea. – Henry Ward Beecher

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No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. – Claudius

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