"Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead."
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"Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion."
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"Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to triumph over the freshness of the morning--when there is just a lingering hint of early coolness to keep off languor under the delicious influence of warmth."
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"Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhaltations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence."
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"The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes."
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"A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes."
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"Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice."
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"Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue."
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"When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind ."
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"Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway."
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"Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage."
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"Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more."
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"Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy."
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"When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you."
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"Our consciences are not all of the same pattern."
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"The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof."
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"The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind."
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"I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged."
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"All things except reason and order are possible with a mob."
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"There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest."
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