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I am madness maddened! That w...

I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself

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all mankind, not excluding Am...

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.

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But when that smoking chowder...

But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.

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Out of the trunk, the branche...

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

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The Anglo-Saxon hive have ext...

The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.

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Surely a gentle sister is the...

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

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There is no life in thee, now...

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.

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Twelve o'clock! It is the nat...

Twelve o'clock! It is the natural centre, key-stone, and very heart of the day. At that hour, the sun has arrived at the top of his hill; and as he seems to hang poised there a while, before coming down on the other side, it is but reasonable to suppose that he is then stopping to dine; setting an eminent example to all mankind.

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There is a wisdom that is woe...

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.

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Because no man can ever feel ...

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

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But oh! shipmates! on the sta...

But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.

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Hell is an idea first born on...

Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

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We should, if possible, prove...

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

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Are there no Moravians in the...

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom?

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It is with fiction as with re...

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

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All we discover has been with...

All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.

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How feeble is all language to...

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

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The American, who up to the p...

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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No town-bred dandy will compa...

No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

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Human madness is oftentimes a...

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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