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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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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson
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His Labor is a Chant — his Idleness — a Tune — oh, for a Bees experience of Clovers, and of Noon! – Emily Dickinson

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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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It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. Psalms 119:71 – Bible

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

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