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  • After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —

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    Emily Dickinson
    Letting Go   Pain   Heart  
    'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' (1862)

  • Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

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    Emily Dickinson
    Expectations   Contentment   Gains  
    Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1079, Delphi Classics

  • Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

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    Life   Happiness   Positivity  
    "Selected Letters". Edited by Thomas H. Johnson,
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Emily Dickinson

  • Born: December 10, 1830
  • Died: May 15, 1886
  • Occupation: Poet
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