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| So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. |
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| Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach |
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| The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death |
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| The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view |
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| The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. |
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| The greatest obstacle to being heroic is to doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed. |
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| The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash |
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| The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. |
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| There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October |
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| This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. |
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| Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind |
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| We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. |
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| What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self ! |
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| What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests |
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| Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. |
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| Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past. |
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| You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me. |
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| You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. |
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