"We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in."
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"When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model."
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"God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them"
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"You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world."
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"And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions."
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"When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes."
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"Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality."
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"So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something."
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"Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young."
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"A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century"
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"It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification."
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"Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true."
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"Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled."
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"Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection."
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"Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted."
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"Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward."
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"Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume."
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"Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it."
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"I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it."
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"The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public."
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