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Quotation from Poems: First, Second and Third Series by Emily Dickinson

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

Emily Dickinson (spoken by The poet)

Poems: First, Second and Third Series, First Series, Life I (Success) (Project Gutenberg #12242 (1890 text))

Portrait of Emily Dickinson

The opening poem of the first book, earlier printed anonymously in A Masque of Poets (1878): only the defeated, dying soldier understands victory.

Citation: "Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed." — Emily Dickinson, Poems: First, Second and Third Series, First Series, Life I (Success) (Project Gutenberg #12242 (1890 text)). (id poems-of-emily-dickinson-q1)

Portrait: Emily Dickinson daguerreotype (Restored, cropped, blown up, sepia), Unknown author, Public domain.

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