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It might be easier
To fail with land in sight,
Than gain my blue peninsula
To perish of delight.

— Emily Dickinson

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Notes from Wikiquote

J prints "lonelier" instead of "easier"

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Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.

It's such a little thing to weep,
So short a thing to sigh;
And yet by trades the size of these
We men and women die!

The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.

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