"What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?"
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"The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food."
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". . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."
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"A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer."
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"A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study."
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"I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion."
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"You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been."
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"Elegance is inferior to virtue."
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"The young are always in extremes."
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"A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own."
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"The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections of the pupil, who puts forth, as a parasite, tendrils by which to cling, not knowing to what - to a supporter or a destroyer."
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"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death."
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"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
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"Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded."
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"I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self."
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"The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places."
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"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."
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"Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance."
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"I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs."
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"...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding."
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