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There are few persons who have...

There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.

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Democracy is a very admirable ...

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

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I found him well educated, wit...

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

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To him, who still would gaze u...

To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.

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In the deepest slumber-no! In ...

In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.

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I was forced to fall back upon...

I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression.

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If you have never been at sea ...

If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.

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If a poem hasn't ripped apart ...

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

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Men have called me mad; but th...

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

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It is a happiness to wonder; -...

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

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It is impossible to say how fi...

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

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There are some secrets which d...

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.

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There is no beauty without som...

There is no beauty without some strangeness

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Come little children I'll take...

Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little

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The enormous multiplication of...

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

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There are few persons, even am...

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

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To die laughing must be the mo...

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

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If you are ever drowned or hun...

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

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That single thought is enough....

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

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The scariest monsters are the ...

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

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